Tag Archives: Poverty
Poverty in America: What we hope, what we believe, and what is actually true
Tweet This video, created by YouTube user “Politizane,” aptly demonstrates not only the astonishing wealth inequality in the United States, but the great yawning divide between what Americans believe is the distribution of wealth in this country and what actually exists. Note: the idealized version of the wealth curve is the same across partisan lines. [...]
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Is this #FirstWorldProblems video genius or exploitative?
TweetWhen I begin writing a blog post, I normally figure out what I think about something and then try to make that argument in a logical and concise way so that you the reader agrees with me by the end. Thus, it’s very rare that I don’t know the answer to the question I’m posing [...]
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Chart of the Day: Poor elderly women to get screwed in fiscal cliff deal
Tweet After several offers and counteroffers, Congress and the President may be close to reaching a fiscal cliff deal. Part of that agreement involves cutting Social Security benefits by switching to calculating them based on chained CPI. According to Brad DeLong, “‘Chained-CPI’ is code for ‘let’s really impoverish some women in their 90s!’” Since women tend to [...]
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Phoenix Mayor finds out first hand that it’s hard to eat well off of food stamps
TweetThe mayor of Phoenix was asked to live on a foodstamp budget for one week in honor of Hunger Awareness Month. He did, but found after 4 days he was “hungry and tired.” He writes in his journal, OK- ran out the door today with no time to scramble eggs or even make a sandwich. [...]
Behold the spectacle that is poverty! NYC bus tour offers the “ghetto” as an attraction