80 Percent Of Americans Near Poverty As Obama Laments Less Mobile Society
According to a new survey made available to the Associated Press, 80 percent of U.S. The rest is here: 80 Percent Of Americans Near Poverty As Obama Laments Less Mobile Society
View ArticleCensus: Poverty Still Historically High As Median Incomes Remain Stagnant
The recovery that wasn’t and isn’t. Here is the original post: Census: Poverty Still Historically High As Median Incomes Remain Stagnant
View ArticleHouse Votes To Cut Food Stamps By $40 Billion
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Yesterday, in act of extreme viciousness and cruelty, the House of Representatives voted to give those already down a...
View ArticleNew Cuts To Food Stamps Come At Worst Time
While Congress obsesses over the imagined perils of rich bondholders – aka “the debt” – real Americans struggling to feed their families got another kick to the teeth this month. On November 1st the...
View ArticleAs Nation’s Income Gap Widens DC Sees Boom Times
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. As poverty and unemployment numbers are revised upwards and the nation’s income gap widens , DC is having boom times as the Dow crosses 16,000....
View ArticleWalmart Holding Canned Food Drive For Its Own Employees
One of the richest companies in the world has found a solution to help feed their struggling underpaid workers – donations from their other underpaid workers. Walmart has defended the practice as part...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Tells Underpaid Employees To Sell Christmas Presents For Cash
Move over Walmart , you may be in jeopardy of losing the title of most heartless mega-corporation for this holiday season. McDonald’s has advised their employees that one way to survive on their...
View ArticleExtended Unemployment Benefits End January 1
Lost in the drama in DC is that many of the programs being cut or eliminated affect real people. One such program is extended unemployment benefits for the long term unemployed. While Wall Street has...
View ArticleAfter Helping Wall Street For Years President Obama Talks Inequality
No president has done more to help rich Wall Street executives than President Barack Obama. Continue reading here: After Helping Wall Street For Years President Obama Talks Inequality
View ArticleCuts To Food Stamps Taking New Form, Eliminating Heating Subsidies Loophole
While Congress may be interested in blowing over $600 billion to subsidize defense contractors in fighting the non-existent Soviet Union, the food stamp program is facing the knife. Now you might note...
View ArticleAs Unemployed Lose Benefits DC Enjoys A Wonderful Year Of Patronage
Thanks in part to the war economy give away/ Ryan-Murray budget , the long term unemployed have lost their benefits and been left out in the cold this holiday season. See the article here: As...
View ArticleMaintaining Nuclear Arsenal To Cost $355 Billion
As unemployment benefits are set to expire Saturday for 1.3 million Americans the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has produced an estimate for the costs of maintaining and modernizing America’s...
View ArticleHouse Farm Bill Includes $8 Billion Of Cuts To Food Stamps
After extensive negotiations and public shaming the House of Representatives did what it was going to do anyway and cut food stamps. So just be happy the bill only cuts food stamps by $8 billion...
View ArticleFarm Bill Passes Senate With Cuts To Food Stamps And Give Aways To Monsanto
The Senate has passed the Farm Bill which includes $8 billion of cuts to food stamps and $7 billion of increases to agribusiness. President Obama has said he will sign it into law. More: Farm Bill...
View ArticleWall Street Journal Doubles Down On Paul Ryan’s Critique Of ‘Inner City’ People
After Congressman Paul Ryan went on Bill Bennett’s radio show and blamed poverty on “inner city” culture there was a public outcry. Most observers understood that the comment was a thinly veiled...
View ArticleMother Dies In Jail Due To Debts
Being a poor person is the same as being a bad person right? The rest is here: Mother Dies In Jail Due To Debts
View ArticleRight Wing’s Latest Target: Poor Children Who Need Food
Daniel Payne While Wall Street takes hundreds of billions in taxpayer money with a permanent bailout guarantee and the Pentagon can not account for a trillion dollars and remains inauditable , the...
View ArticlePoverty Unchanged By Wall Street Recovery
Though the federal government and Federal Reserve moved heaven and earth to ensure the 1% were made whole after the financial crisis, those unable to buy influence in Washington remain frayed....
View ArticleGrowing Global Inequality Gap ‘Has Reached a Tipping Point’
‘When such a large group in the population gains so little from economic growth, the social fabric frays and trust in institutions is weakened.’ By Nadia Prupis With the gap between the rich and poor...
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