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You Won’t Believe How Little $8.25 an Hour Buys
Mary Babic,
October 7, 2014
This post was originally published on Oxfam America’s First Person blog on Sept. 29. For my hard-working family and friends who earn just above the U.S. minimum wage, a paycheck doesn’t go very far. My daughter struck it lucky when she landed a job for $8.25 an hour at the local...
Head Smacker: Poverty is Rampant in Cities. Where is the Urgent Response?
Deborah Weinstein,
October 3, 2014
One in seven Americans is poor. But what if poverty were far more prevalent – say, if one in four were poor. What if the concentration of poverty among children were still higher: at least one in three. At those very high levels, we would expect many things to go wrong. ...
What’s the State of Poverty in Your State? – Part 2
Lecia Imbery,
October 3, 2014
Last week, we highlighted some of the fabulous work our state partners did surrounding the reports on poverty in their states that they released in conjunction with CHN . The work continued this week, with even more organizations releasing reports based on the new Census Bureau data, and spreading the word...
Some Say $10.10 Would Hurt Business, But Most Business People Disagree
Andrew Yarrow,
October 2, 2014
This post was originally published on Oxfam America’s blog, The Politics of Poverty, on Oct. 2. U.S. businesses are in. The American public is in. So what’s next on the minimum wage, Congress? It has long been the argument from some voices in business—or at least their Washington lobbyists and...
Fact of the Week: Only One in Four
Lecia Imbery,
October 1, 2014
Unemployment Insurance Reaches Historically Low Share of Jobless At the Witness Wednesday events held throughout this summer, in our emails, and here on our blog, we’ve continued to make the case for why Congress should renew unemployment insurance (UI) benefits for the long-term jobless that were allowed to expire last December....
