World-News

By Wolf Richter

There is a new phenomenon: a ballooning lower class. It now engulfs 32% of all adults. In America!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32431.htm



Rich-Poor Gap Widens to Most Since 1967 as Income Falls

The report also showed the income gap between rich and poor people grew to the widest in more than 40 years in 2011 as the poverty rate remained at almost a two-decade high.

http://is.gd/oAotpQ



Poor And White? Your Life Expectancy Just Shrank By 4 Years

The U.S. does not fare well in international life expectancy rankings. American women fell from 14th place in 1985 to 41st place in 2010 in overall rankings, but among developed countries, they dropped to last place, according to the Human Mortality Database.

http://is.gd/C9SLbj



Poverty USA

Americans are working longer and harder but becoming poorer and less economically secure.

http://stateofworkingamerica.org/fact-sheets/poverty/


From Information Clearing House

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Record Poverty Persists While Gap Between Rich and Rest of Us Increases
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/13-2



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