Immobility Nation
January 30, 2012 | For most people facing poverty today in the United States, the concept of America as the land of opportunity is just a fable.
January 30, 2012 | For most people facing poverty today in the United States, the concept of America as the land of opportunity is just a fable.
January 27, 2012 | Americans are in for a long, hard slog.
January 4, 2012 | Had the federal minimum wage risen at the same pace as the earnings of the highest-paid Americans, it would now be $26.96 an hour.
December 24, 2011 | Retail sales are up in the top 1 percent's plutonomy, but down in the realonomy where the other 99 percent live.
December 19, 2011 | The supercommittee shouldn't have considered this unreasonable, unprincipled, and unfair cost-cutting plan.
December 5, 2011 | The other 99 percent fare much worse in the United States than in any other developed country.
November 14, 2011 | If the United States were to update the way we measure poverty, we'd find that about 28 percent of American families of four are now living in poverty.
October 17, 2011 | Income and benefits for most Americans have stagnated over the past four decades despite steady economic growth.