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Sasha Abramsky, Nation Books: National 'austerity' pressure to further cut the social safety net only increases the plight of US citizens struggling to survive, as Sasha Abramsky discusses in this excerpt from his new book, The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18665-shake-a-stick-in-post%E2%80%93financial-collapse-america-and-one-hits-poverty

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Austerity Threatens to Push 25 Million More Into Poverty
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/12-3

The American Way of Poverty: Sasha Abramsky on the Forgotten Poor
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/09/12-0

Suicides Spike in Age of Austerity
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/18-4

The Poorest Americans are Children and the Poorest Children are Black, Hispanic and Under Six
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/09/19-5

Austerity Brings Poverty, Despair, 'Quiet Desperation' to Europe
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/10-0

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Black People are Worse Off Financially Than Any Other Group in America

The most recent U.S. Census report reveals that minorities have the highest poverty rates in the richest nation in the world. 27.2 percent of African-Americans and 25.6 percent of Latinos are at or below the poverty threshold. African-Americans, collectively, are the poorest of all ethnic and racial groups in America.

http://is.gd/qh0gXy


From Information Clearing House

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As the Fantasy Dies: 'Panic Will Ensue'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/mac-slavo/the-panic-will-come%E2%80%A8/



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