Official Poverty Measure Undercounts the Nation’s Poor
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- State and local budget shortfalls will cause heavy drag on growth
- Jobs creation effort needs to focus on good jobs
- Minorities, less-educated workers see staggering rates of underemployment
- Money to spare for health care
- Highest earners get biggest tax breaks for saving for retirement
- Public health insurance offsets large losses in private coverage
- Most black children grow up in neighborhoods with significant poverty
- Lost investment during a recession can prolong pain
- Trade agreement favors pharmaceutical companies over sick
- Americans agree on how to fix Social Security
- Big banks getting bigger
- This Labor Day, wage erosion continues to hurt employed workers
- Economic downturn largest contributor to deficit woes
- No coercion in card check
- Unions guarantee more vacation
- Clunkers program drives economic, environmental gains
- Costly COBRA: For the jobless, health care costs may exceed unemployment benefits
- Minimum wage workers: better educated, worse compensated
- The Federal Reserve’s exploding balance sheet
- African Americans see weekly wage decline
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