Economics
Poverty is hitting the suburbs with more sting
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 14:48 — Dave Culver- Literally: We Can't Afford Afghanistan or Our Military Industrial Complex, If We Want to Advance as a Nation
- Bastions of the middle class, Twin Cities suburbs are seeing financial pain spreading quietly among their residents. They now have more poor people than the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
- Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
Mary Jane Smetanka, Star Tribune | MN
Wiley Miller
In a startling shift, Twin Cities suburbs now have more poor people than the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Job losses, foreclosures and disappearing insurance coverage have pushed requests for food stamps, medical assistance and emergency housing aid to record levels. Homeless numbers are rising. Food shelves are scrambling to meet demand.
It's a trend mirrored in suburbs across the nation, where a recent study found that suburban poverty has grown five times faster than it has in big cities.
Address jobs now, deficits later
Sun, 03/07/2010 - 21:25 — Dave Culver- Lawrence Mishel of EPI and David Walker of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation may not always see eye to eye on policy issues. But with millions of Americans out of a job, both agree that “we must accept higher deficits in the short-term to put people back to work.”
- It’s an unemployment crisis, not a deficit crisis
Lawrence Mishel, David Walker, Politico, in Economic Policy Institute
Summary: America's Financial Crisis: Week of March 7
Fri, 03/05/2010 - 13:12 — Dave Culver5 New Items including:
- Democrats Follow Failed Health Care Strategy and Preemptively Surrender on Consumer Financial Protection Agency
- Address jobs now, deficits later
David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest
Ted Rall
Series: The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America - Part II, David DeGraw, AmpedStatus
- “The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class…. And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don’t want anybody else to know about it.” — Noam Chomsky
- This is the second-part of a six-part report: The Rise of the Economic Elite
Address jobs now, deficits later, Lawrence Mishel, David Walker, Politico, in Economic Policy Institute