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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…