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Poverty
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30-year sneak attack in America’s class war
Maintaining a tradition that has been around since at least the Reagan Revolution, John McCain the other night ridiculed the idea of “spreading the wealth” and accused Barack Obama of playing “class warfare.” This is… -
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BROKE, USA
This is a report from the economic fringes by Gary Rivlin, who spent two years writing this expose of the “poverty industry.” While doing his research, Rivlin hung out at the annual check cashers convention,… -
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Income inequality and financial crises
David A. Moss, an economic and policy historian at the Harvard Business School, has spent years studying income inequality. While he has long believed that the growing disparity between the rich and poor was harmful… -
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Poverty numbers get muted reaction on Hill
Deborah Weinstein, a longtime advocate for the poor, calls the news that one in seven Americans is living in poverty “a national emergency.” But for much of Washington’s political class, the shocking new poverty numbers… -
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Census finds record gap between rich and poor
The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on record as young adults and children in particular struggled to stay afloat in the recession. The top-earning 20… -
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Midnight grocery runs capture economic desperation
Once a month, just after midnight, the beeping checkout scanners at a Walmart just off Interstate 95 come alive in a chorus of financial desperation. Here and at grocery stores across the country, the chimes… -
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The Haves and the Have-Nots
Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you’ll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why—beyond the idle curiosity—do these questions even matter?… -
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Nearly one in six in poverty in the U.S.; children hit hard, Census says
Nearly one in six Americans was living in poverty last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, a development that is ensnaring growing numbers of children and offering vivid proof of the recession’s devastating impact. The… -
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A surge in poverty is reshaping suburbs
The poor population in America’s suburbs — long a symbol of a stable and prosperous American middle class — rose by more than half after 2000, forcing suburban communities across the country to re-evaluate their… -
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Harder for Americans to rise from lower rungs
Benjamin Franklin did it. Henry Ford did it. And American life is built on the faith that others can do it, too: rise from humble origins to economic heights. “Movin’ on up,” George Jefferson-style, is… -
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More than 1.4 million families live on $2 a day per person
The number of families living on $2 or less per person per day for at least a month in the USA has more than doubled in 15 years to 1.46 million. That’s up from 636,000… -
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Inequality undermines democracy
Americans have never been too worried about the income gap. The gap between the rich and the rest has been much wider in the United States than in other developed nations for decades. Still, polls…
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