Number of Poor Americans Rises for 3rd Year; 36.9 Million Live in Poverty and 37.4 Million Lack Health Insurance, Census Bureau SaysGuy Gugliotta
higher than in the late 1960s when the War on Poverty was getting underway, $16 trillion ago. The child poverty rate climbed to 22%, nearly a quarter of all American children. The total number of Americans in poverty is higher than at any time in th 人口调查在60年代末期也报道贫穷率上升...
Washington, DC ($189,306), Boston ($175,628), New York ($173,006), San Francisco ($172,340) and San Jose ($167,958) each ranked in the top five. A salary of at least$167,000is needed for a comfortable lifestyle in these high cost-of-living metro areas. Nine California cities...
Corporations don't create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they're doing now, the vast majority of Americans don't have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell - which means businesses stop creating enough jobs. — Robert Re...
Presidential Candidate Carson Skews Poverty Rates, Number of Americans on WelfareKessler, Glenn