Sasha Abramsky is revisited the poor in America. Abramsky writes for The Nation:
For years, the story of poverty in America has been swept into the nether regions of our collective consciousness. Now, however, a new opportunity has opened up to place poverty and inequality center-stage again. Fifty years after Michael [...]
Last week, rising Republican star and House Budget Chair Paul Ryan and author of a federal budget that eats the poor said:
A person’s faith is central to how they conduct themselves in public and in private. So to me, using my Catholic faith, we call it the social magisterium, [...]
And that’s part of the reason you find so many businesses offering them in the poorest neighborhoods where a quick influx of cash might mean the difference between meeting the rent, or not, writes Gary Rivlin, at Mother Jones. He explains how refund anticipation loads (RALs) work:
According to a new report from Urban Institute says low-income children — 42 percent of the population under age 18 — receive 70 percent of federal spending and tax expenditures in 2009 geared toward children. By comparison — and using the latest figures [...]
