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The Toll of the Great Recession. Childhood Poverty Among Hispanics Sets Record, Leads Nation
September 30, 2011 by editor (View Source)
(pew) The spread of poverty across the United States that began at the onset of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and accelerated last year hit one fast-growing demographic group especially hard: Latino children.
More Latino children are living in poverty—6. 1 million in 2010—than children of any other racial or ethnic group. This marks the first time in U. S. More...
(Audio) Census: Reading, Pa., Has Highest Poverty Rate.
September 30, 2011 by editor (View Source)
(npr) Melissa Block speaks with Reading, Pa. , Mayor Thomas McMahon about the recent U. S. Census Poverty Report that ranks Reading as the city with the highest rate of residents living in poverty. Mayor McMahon of Reading: "Well, one of the reasons certainly is the large out-migration of the middle class and the influx of Hispanic population, which we know that, in the Hispanic population, that the education level is not up to the same level as, you know, to Anglo or Asian classes, for example. More...
Accentuate the Positive
May 10, 2010 by winfreylee (View Source)
A few years ago, Eton and Margarette Lacon noticed that whereever they went it seemed that people were displaying negativity. The Lacons decided to fight that. How was the big question? After time and time again of searching they came up with the name "Were Worth It" for the company. Why Were Worth It. Simple we as a people are we not worth being happy, are we not worth being in love, should we not be healthy, shoud we not have financial stability. More...
Poor? Pay Up. Having Little Money Often Means No Car, No Washing Machine, No Checking Account And No Break From Fees and High Prices.
May 25, 2009 by editor (View Source)
(wapo) You have to be rich to be poor.
That's what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don't understand. Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact of life that reality television and magazines don't often explain. More...
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Tent City in Sacramento, California. America faces new Depression misery as financial crisis worsens.
March 13, 2009 by editor (View Source)
(timesonline) By the wide stretch of the American River in Sacramento, history is repeating itself. Here, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, men and women who had lost everything and despaired of finding work built rough shelters and huddled around fires.
Now the spiral of job losses and house repossessions has left another wave of Americans homeless, and a new tent city is growing rapidly on lumpy, derelict land between the river and the railway tracks here in the capital of California.
There are more than 300 people living in scattered encampments stretching a couple of miles along the river bank. As many as 50 more arrive each week. More...
