According to census data released this month, 3.5 million Americans were able to raise their chins above the poverty line last year. More than seven years after the recession ended, employers are finally being compelled to reach deeper into the pools of…
Here’s something for Republican presidential hopeful, Marco Rubio. Forget lying about welders making more money than philosophers, that is just a lie and you know it. Instead, tell your people that they could make more money if they quit their…
He is a Republican Representative from California named, Tom McClintock. And in an interview with C-SPAN on Thursday, McClintock went there with his Republican ideology in public, saying that the minimum wage is for “minorities,” teenagers and other unskilled people no work experience….
Yeah, she grew up poor alright. So poor that Sen. Joni Ernst, the Republican Senator who gave the Republican’s official response to the State of The Union Address, said that as a kid, she had to put “plastic bread bags”…
And the Republicans rejoice. They have been working for this outcome for decades! Middle- and low-income Americans are facing far higher state and local taxes than the wealthy, according to a new report assessing tax data from all 50 states….
The number of homeless residents in New York City, the largest city in the United States, reached a record high this month at more than 56,000 people. Halfway around the world, another metropolis recently hit a homeless record of its…
(Getty Images) From 2011 to 2012, the number of New Yorkers who were at or near poverty levels remained constant at 46%. According to a new report [PDF] released by the City’s Center for Economic Opportunity andobtained by the Times, “nearly half of…
“So many of these Fousey videos try to portray people as bad or heartless if they don’t stop and help anyone, but like seriously, people have their own problems to worry about and their own mouths or families mouths to…
There is always a new war for these Republicans to engage in, but rest assured, you will never, never, never, ever, ever see a Republican war on tax loopholes for the rich, or subsidies to the rich, or anything involving…
Republicans never miss the opportunity to tell you that poor people are leaches, sucking the life from the economy with their greed through the welfare system. But they never mention their millionaire friends and businesses, who are milking the system…
It’s about a sad little boy who didn’t want a school lunch. He wanted his lunch in a brown paper bag just like all the other boys and girls who got that brown paper bag of love from their parents….
It seems that when Chris Christie’s mentor asked this question – “is that what you want in your president?”- he was not only talking about Christie’s possible involvement in the BridgeGate crisis. It is quite possible that he got a…
