Quote of the Day, March 21, 2013- excerpted from “Study: Philly Leads the Nation in ‘Deep Poverty’ Residents,”by Angelo Fichera in philly.com: “Resou[...]
Mar 21 2013
Wince of the Week, February 24- March 2, 2013. Our EHRP team winced when we read this excerpted from a new Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Report,”TANF Emerging from t[...]
Mar 1 2013
Quote of the Day, December 13, 2012: from our latest EHRP piece, in Mother Jones: Gabe Thompson’s “Can You Survive on $2 a Day?” Welfare reform had placed strict[...]
Dec 13 2012
Quote of the Day, December 3, 2012, from a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation on “Disconnected Youth”: Youth employment is at its lowest level since World War [...]
Dec 3 2012
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 – September 26, 2012 While the overall percentage of people living in poverty nationwide did not change significantly between 2010 and 2011, individual state[...]
Sep 26 2012
By Dashka Slater Originally Distributed via OtherWords (OtherWords.org) For those on the economic ladder’s lowest rungs, the middle rungs have almost completely disappeared. [...]
Sep 24 2012
Quote of the day- August 21, 2012 Nearly 40 million working-age people now live in parts of major American metropolitan areas that lack public transportation, according to an analy[...]
Aug 21 2012
Quote of the Day, July 3, 2012 There have been no epidemiological studies attempting to find a correlation between student loan indebtedness and suicide or suicide attempts, but ex[...]
Jul 2 2012