One Young Person’s Story of Homelessness
Lecia Imbery,
January 9, 2015
Dae’Jah was 13 when she first became homeless. She clearly remembers the day her mother told her they had to pack up everything they had and leave their house because they were being evicted. Her mom had lost her business and was no longer able to make the mortgage payments....
Fact of the Week: Child Care Cost is Nearly Half of Income for a Family at the Poverty level
Lecia Imbery,
January 7, 2015
With the start of the new year, many of us returned to work or school after some time off over the holidays. While parents are hard at work at jobs or bettering their education to provide for their children, roughly 11 million children younger than age five are in some...
Head Smacker: The Rationale Construction Industry at Work
Deborah Weinstein,
December 31, 2014
When the Republican-majority Congress starts up in January, they will want to set the stage for tax reductions for corporations and the wealthy. The Rationale Construction Industry is doing its best to help. Its work was in evidence in an opinion piece by Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation printed...
Asset Poverty in America
Andrew Yarrow,
December 23, 2014
Among the many troubling signs that the U.S. economy isn’t really recovering and that inequality is becoming more deeply ingrained is the lack of savings by most Americans and the tremendous disparities in assets between a wealthy few and much of the population. Although the stock market has rebounded spectacularly...
Fact of the Week: Child Poverty Rates Top 50 Percent in More Than 40 U.S. Counties
Lecia Imbery,
December 19, 2014
At least one out of every two kids is poor in more than 40 counties in America, data released Wednesday by the Census Bureau revealed. The 2013 data is from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program, which provides one-year income and poverty statistics for all 3,140 counties...
