By Ruth Mantell
The 46.2 million people in poverty in 2010 was the largest group for the 52 years that estimates have been published.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29119.htm
6 Big GOP Lies About The Economy
Video
Is Social Security a Ponzi scheme as Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry claims?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29122.htm
Noam Chomsky on US Economic Crisis
Interview With Democracy Now!
Noam Chomsky, says 'huge military spending, a very low taxes by the rich [and corporations] .... those fundamental problems have to be dealt with if there is going to be anything like successful economic and social development in the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29123.htm
America is Collapsing
Mr. President, We Need a 10-Year Plan
By Lawrence Summers
Shovel-ready projects won t cut it, says Lawrence Summers, former treasury secretary.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29121.htm
Tea Party Crowd Cheers Letting Uninsured Die
Video
In Tampa, Florida at the CNN/Tea Party Express debate Monday night, the tea party-filled audience literally cheered aloud for the uninsured to be allowed to die.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29118.htm
Massive default is best way to fix the economy
Clearing away the debt is the only way forward.
http://bit.ly/oGnS1E
IMF: Austerity boosts unemployment, lowers paychecks
In a new paper for the International Monetary Fund, Laurence Ball, Daniel Leigh and Prakash Loungani look at 173 episodes of fiscal austerity over the past 30 years. Their verdict? Austerity 'lowers incomes in the short term, with wage-earners taking more of a hit than others; it also raises unemployment, particularly long-term unemployment.'
http://wapo.st/pCjzzP
Median Male Worker Makes Less Now Than 43 Years Ago
While the fact that a record number of Americans are living in poverty should not surprise anyone at this point, what should surprise many is that according to Table P-5 of the Census report of (Lack of) Income, the median male is now worse on a gross, inflation adjusted basis, than he was in... 1968!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/median-male-worker-makes-less-now-43-years-ago
Thousands jailed in the US for being poor
In what might seem like an un-American plot twist from a Charles Dickens' novel, advocates for the poor say, some parents are wrongly being locked away without any regard for their ability to pay child support - sometimes without the benefit of legal representation.
http://on.msnbc.com/prA8ft
From Information Clearing House
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US Poverty Rate Swells to Record High
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/13-3
Nation of 50 Million Uninsured Needs Medicare for All
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/13-6
War Profiteers Escalate Their War on Jobs
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/09/13
Rick Perry in the Spotlight as Texas Sets to Work on Controversial Executions
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/13-4
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Senator Bernie Sanders: Is Poverty a Death Sentence?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/09/13-0
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