HICKS: Defining and understanding poverty in America
How much poverty we have and how bad it is remain elusive questions. The causes of poverty are better known.
How much poverty we have and how bad it is remain elusive questions. The causes of poverty are better known.
We have a growing crisis among the nation’s children, yet our policies ignore that reality at best and exacerbate it at worst.
This isn’t about balancing budgets or fiscal discipline or prosperity-for-posterity stewardship. This is open piracy for plutocrats.
Many analysts think the economy is growing at a 3.5 percent pace or better mainly because consumers are spending more freely again.