Quote of the Day – November 20, 2012 During the recession of 2007 through 2009, households at all income levels, including the wealthiest, saw declines in real income due to[...]
Nov 20 2012
Quote of the Day, November 1, 2012 More than 30 million Americans are living just above the poverty line. These near poor, often defined as having incomes of up to 1.5 times the p[...]
Nov 1 2012
Quote of the Day – October 3, 2012 A few months ago, anticipating that the presidential campaigns would fail to focus in any substantive way on the record levels of poverty n[...]
Oct 3 2012
Tagged: candidate, debate, income, policy, poverty, poverty issues, president, presidential debate, questions, wages
Quote of the Day – October 1, 2012 While most of the states with the lowest incomes suffer from weak economies, unemployment was not a significant problem. Only two states we[...]
Oct 1 2012
Quote of the Day, August 6, 2012 Rising income inequality has led to a growing number of Americans clustering in neighborhoods in which most residents are like them, either similar[...]
Aug 6 2012
Tagged: Americans, income, low-income, neighborhood, Pew, poverty, rich, segregation, Washington Post
Quote of the Day, July 9, 2012 The level of inequality in the United States has clearly reached this ‘excessive’ level. It has more inequality than any of the other advanced indust[...]
Jul 9 2012