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Poverty
The Reality for the Middle Classes behind the supposedly “Surging” U.S. Economy
The black unemployment rate remains more than twice as high as the rate for whites and it has increased from 6.5% in April 2018
80% of Workers live Paycheck to Paycheck, and Federal ones are no Different
The percentage of U.S. households that have zero or negative wealth increased from 15.5 percent in 1983 to 21.2 percent today.
Could Trump’s Gov’t Shutdown send US Economy into Tailspin?
Payments to farmers and poor families, craft beer labels, food inspections and economic data all have fallen victim to the budget impasse.
For 40 Million US Working Poor, Trillion-Dollar Foreign Military Adventures Don’t Bring Security
The greatest threat day-to-day threat for millions of Americans isn’t terrorism or North Korea, it’s economic insecurity
Whitey on the Moon Again?
The likelihood is that the government will pay for the lunar space station with borrowed money, making it enormously expensive
Why the Supreme Court’s Gutting of Unions dooms US to Deeper Poverty, Inequality
The Supreme Court’s decision in Janus will leave the United States still more unequal.
The American March to Inequality: Why the UN Alston Report Alarms the Trump Plutocrats
The US would require a social revolution to even resemble France or Germany
Why has the GOP grown the Military-Industrial Complex but slashed Human Security?
The US has the highest rate of maternal deaths of any industrial country & we are the “child poverty capital”