Wince of the Week, March 17-23, 2013. The EHRP Team winced at these realities expressed by our own Barbara Ehrenreich in a recent interview by Jennifer Slevin: One of the things t[...]
Mar 22 2013
By Jennifer Slevin, re-posted from her blog: In 2001, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, an exposé about minimum-wage workers, propelled author Barbara Ehrenreich to[...]
Mar 15 2013
This piece was written by Susan Faludi and originally published on CNN Editor’s note: Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer-winning journalist and author of “Backlash: The Undecla[...]
Mar 13 2013
Quote of the Day, March 11th, 2013, excerpted from This Week in Poverty: ‘A Place at the Table’ and ‘American Winter’ by Greg Kaufmann in The Nation: [A Pla[...]
Mar 12 2013
Quote of the Day, March 5th, 2013, excerpted from ”Raising the Minimum Wage is a Step Toward Economic Freedom” by Annette Bernhardt in Next New Deal: One particular con[...]
Mar 7 2013
Quote of the day March 6th 2013, excerpted from “School Breakfasts and Ending Child Hunger” by Greg Kaufmann on The Nation. They new report shows the dramatic effect t[...]
Mar 7 2013
Quote of the Day, March 5th, 2013, excerpted from This Week in Poverty: Gangnam-Style Counting With Senator Jeff Sessions by Greg Kaufmann on The Nation: In his report, Senator Ses[...]
Mar 7 2013
Quote of the Day, February 28, 2013, excerpted from Fiscal Trouble Ahead for Most Future Retirees by Edward Linsmier in The Washington Post: The Great Recession and the weak recove[...]
Feb 28 2013
Quote of the Day, February 27, 2013, excerpted from Prison and the Poverty Trap by John Tierney published in The New York Times. The shift to tougher penal policies three decades a[...]
Feb 27 2013
Quote of the Day, February 26, 2013, excerpted from This Week in Poverty: How Obama Can Fight Hunger Now by Greg Kaufmann in The Nation. If the sequester cuts takes effect, 600,00[...]
Feb 27 2013