The Poor in America

What happened to Obama’s vision for America? Why is poverty exploding? Why are there so many homeless people? Maybe some of it has to do with Obama, the Democrats and the Republican continuing to enact legislation that redistributes income from the 99 percent to the one percent, from main street to Wall Street. The South [...]

Read Full Post »

Even Severely Conservative Critics of the Social Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It

The economy is in shambles, even if there might be occurring some short-term improvement. In the long-term, say over the next five years, if not sooner, things are going to deteriorate. That’s why even severely conservative people continue to use the government social safety nets more and more. More of the national income is going [...]

Read Full Post »

Dickens’s 200th birthday celebrated around the world and on the web

Happy Birthday Charles Dickens! You wrote about wretched conditions in England, and child labor, and your brilliance as a writer put out the worst of humanity on the very first page. And you entertained us. Click here for the rest of the story

Read Full Post »

The Phoney Populist: Obama can’t and won’t fight the class war too soon

The American middle class hardly needs to be told that it’s struggling: Obama needs to name the enemy, not emote empathy, but he’s not likely to do that. He doesn’t care about the middle class, except during election time. That’s now, and three years ago, and ten years ago. Obama wasn’t politically around ten years [...]

Read Full Post »

A Full House; The Sad State of the United States; the Destruction of the American Dream via the Corruption of Politics

The number of American households in which three or more generations are living under one roof have increased by 30% over the last decade, according to census data. That’s understandable when one considers that 50 percent of the American public now live at or below the poverty line as defined by the US Census Bureau. [...]

Read Full Post »

We are People too!

Click here for we are people too

Read Full Post »

United States Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income

WASHINGTON (AP) — Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. The latest census data depict a middle class that’s shrinking as unemployment stays high and the government’s safety net frays. [...]

Read Full Post »

Land of the free, home of the hungry; Nowhere is the chasm between America’s political class and its working poor more vast than in the demand to cut food stamps

The United States rates as the seventy-fifth best country for income maldistribution in the world. We’re down there with Uganda. Below is the story of how the land of the free is now the land of the poor. Click here for the full story

Read Full Post »

How the Republican Party became the Party of the Rich

The Republican Party wasn’t always the party of the rich. President Ronald Reagan once insisted that a bus driver shouldn’t pay the same tax rate as a millionaire. Those days are gone. Of course, the truth is that 66 to 80 percent of the Democratic Party is a party of and for the rich. But [...]

Read Full Post »

Poverty Numbers Up in United States

“Bleak Portrait of Poverty Is Off the Mark, Experts Say,” blared the Friday headline in the New York Times. The traditional strategy for measuring poverty, we were told, did not include the benefits of federal programs like food stamps and tax credits that were helping to keep Americans above the poverty line. A new, “supplemental [...]

Read Full Post »