More Than 46 Million Americans Still in Poverty

More Than 46 Million Americans Still in Poverty

This blogpost originally appeared on Truthout. According to Census Bureau figures released today, 15 percent of the US population lives in poverty. In 2011, more than 46 million Americans lived below a poverty line that was set more than four decades ago, in 1969. The...

Poverty on the March

Come along,We’ll take a tour;Of rules stacked up Against the poor. The standard of living in the United States is unfortunately going down. Not so much for top earners. The harshest blows, as usual, fall farther down the ladder. Now that the financial industry...