We don’t talk about poverty in our country. Our political discourse, guided by pollsters and consultants, directs leaders to refer to "the middle-class", not to the millions of people who live in conditions that do not get much better, whether we are in something called a "recession" or we are in "recovery". And it is […]
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Poverty, A Lost Decade and The Shame of America
Posted on 11 September 2009.
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New Income and Health Insurance Data
Posted on 30 August 2007.
The Census Bureau released a new report yesterday – Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006 report. The data paints a dreary picture about the state of working America. For those of us who aren’t in the top 5%, this shouldn’t come as a big surprise. On Health Insurance: According to […]
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