Poverty

Disturbing New Report Shows Dire Conditions For Grocery Workers

A huge new survey of Kroger employees finds homelessness, poverty, and food insecurity are widespread. An alarming new survey of thousands of grocery workers across three western U.S. states reveals that they suffer from shockingly high rates of poverty. More than three-quarters of the workers meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s definition of ?“food insecure,” and 14% …

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Australia Seeks to ‘Manage’ the Poor While Making Them Poorer

Leave a Comment / Poverty / By max cyril

When Mitt Romney derides the legions of Americans who are supposedly utterly dependent on government and are ruining the country’s entrepreneurial spirit, we should remember that while this disdain for the poor may have a uniquely American inflection, the greed-is-good ethos flourishes in other rich nations. In the land down under, we see a mirror …

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What is poverty?

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What is poverty? According to the federal government poverty for a family of four is $23,050 a year. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, which, if you work a 40-hour week, 52 weeks a year, you would earn $15,080 a year. The average rent cost in the United States is $808 (PDF) a …

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So Rich, So Poor: What to make of America’s poverty problem

Leave a Comment / Poverty / By max cyril

Current Georgetown University Law Center Professor Peter Edelman knows a thing or two about poverty. While serving in the Health and Human Services Department under the Clinton administration, Peter famously resigned in protest to Clinton’s signing of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. He believed that the move from federal control of welfare grants to a …

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Disturbing New Report Shows Dire Conditions For Grocery Workers

Australia Seeks to ‘Manage’ the Poor While Making Them Poorer

What is poverty?

So Rich, So Poor: What to make of America’s poverty problem

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