Poverty
Recession slams Black and Latino families
October 14, 2010Newly released data reveals that racially-based economic inequalities may be at their worst levels since the 1990s.
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Unemployment at 50 percent, Detroit vows to fight
October 14, 2010Though she is without full-time employment, Emily Norton works even harder today. She now has four part-time jobs but earns just one-third of what she made while working full time.
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Poverty up, uninsured up
September 22, 2010The Great Recession hit home and hit hard in 2009, the Census Bureau said, as the number of uninsured leaped by 4.4 million in one year.
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Obama slams Republicans on economy
September 9, 2010The president came out swinging in a major economic policy speech in Cleveland, Sept. 8, against Republican Party obstructionism.
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Germans take note of wealth gap in America
August 24, 2010The days when Europeans believed that in America the streets are paved with gold are long over.
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