Americans are hurting right now. Some 20 million people are unemployed, or under-employed. Millions more have just given up and dropped out of the labor market.…
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Have the Elite in America Lost Touch with Reality?
Inequality and Immigration Revisited
Buried in a Bloomberg View item by Megan McArdle about income inequality and the upcoming election is this sentence: “Of those 100 districts [with the most…
Poverty among Non-Citizens Reaches 32 Percent
Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau released a report that suggests the poverty rate among non-citizens in 2011 was a stunning 32 percent — seven percent…
Relationship Between Rise in Poverty and Immigration Levels Exist
On Nov. 30th the Washington Examiner published an interesting story about the rise in the level of poverty among school-aged children in the Washington DC-area. The…
The Wealth Gap and the Demise of the “American Dream”
Last week Zogby International released a poll which found that just 50 percent of the American public believes that the “American Dream” is still attainable. This…