Tag: Work and Poverty
DREAM Act backers go door to door to blast Buck, boost...
Jacob Hacker on the expanding income gap
Income inequality — the difference between what the rich earn and what everyone else earns — is higher in the United States than in developed countries the world over. Moving against the trend established in the rest of developed societies, the gap between the rich and the rest of Americans has widened over the past 30 years. It has also grown wider during the recession, contrary to most predictions. Since the 1990s, the richest of the rich have pulled away from the merely wealthy, while the recession has made more and more Americans poor.
Mixed-bag Anthem settlement and Obamacare funds put insurers on notice
State, federal health reform expands Medicaid eligibility by 200K in Colorado
San Francisco study, Michigan news: Immigrants don’t steal jobs; they get...
Suthers campaign cash hangs over payday loan hearing
Colorado lawmakers, left and right, look to lead on immigration reform
Organized online, jobless Americans eye midterm elections
Sometime this spring, Republicans turned against unemployment. In Nevada, Sharron Angle (R), the candidate facing incumbent Sen. Harry Reid (D), told local reporters, “You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job.” (Untrue.) Angle also called the unemployed “spoiled.”