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[...]

Quote of the Day, January 18, 2013, excerpted from The Nation.com’s “This Week in Poverty” by Greg Kaufmann: People are beginning to recognize that we have a prol[...]

Quote of the Day, January 17, 2013 excerpted from Low-Income Working Families: The Growing Economic Gap, a report from The Working Poor Families Project by Brandon Roberts, Deborah[...]

Quote of the Day, January 15th, 2013, excerpted from Reuters article “Number of U.S. working poor families grows as wealth gap widens,” by Susan Heavy More working pare[...]

Quote of the Day – December 5, 2012 “There’s an inability of workers to find new jobs, and those that do are not making as much as before,” says Janice King[...]

Quote of the Day – November 13, 2012 The average full-time janitor [in Cincinnati] currently makes just $17,836 annually cleaning the offices of these multibillion-dollar com[...]

 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[...]

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[...]

Wince of the Week September 28, 2012:  Our EHRP team winced when we read this story, recounted by Alice Gomstyn on abcnews.go.com   Cindy Nerger, 28, who relies on food stamps to f[...]

It’s still dark when I show up at the Labor Ready storefront in downtown Oakland, California, just a few blocks from the plaza where the Occupy crowd threw up its tents again[...]