Tag: working poor

In 2008, as the financial sector was melting down, the federal government spent between between $20 and $36 trillion on corporate bailouts. After the 2008 financial...

When adjusted for inflation, the federal minimum wage has hovered around seven dollars since the 1970's. The cost of living, however, has not remained stagnant. In 1970,...

A recent study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition determined how many hours you would have to work a minimum wage job to afford...

This article originally appeared on Ravishly and has been reprinted with permission of the author, Carrie Saum. Dear Special Eaters of The World, I can’t afford...

Payday loans, a business widely regarded as predatory lenders, have enjoyed screwing over lower and middle-income Americans for decades. If you've made the mistake...

A new viral video is circulating on the internet of a hateful woman tearing down a man trying to purchase groceries for his child,...

Fox News is losing its sh*t now that the $15 minimum wage is law in California, New York, and a dozen major cities across...

Homelessness is an important issue, and it's one we should be talking about. And yet it doesn't get as much discussion as it should, probably...

A recent study from Washington University St. Louis has found a surprising connection between children's tax bracket and their brain development. The researchers analyzed over 100...

Americans are broke as f**k. How broke? According to the January MasterCard SpendingPulse data: 24.8% have $100 or less in their accounts. 23.8% have $101-$500 in...

President Barack Obama has called Donald Trump out for preying on the fears of the working class and claims that Trump is exploiting them...

Six months ago, Dan Price, founder of Gravity Payments in Seattle, WA, announced that he was going to raise the wage of every single...

A new organization called the Fairness Project officially launched last Thursday with seed money from the SEIU-UHW, a large union in California. Their goal:...

Originally published at Poor as Folk and reprinted with permission. The above response is perfect. The author is David Gerrold. As a writer, I appreciate grammar and...

Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has a plan to openly extort his GOP colleagues with a list of demands they must agree to before he will agree to run for...

  He was barefoot, his little feet bruised from rocks as he wandered Philadelphia, alone in the dark of night. It all started when the...

It's more bad news for single-parent and low-income families: child care is crazy expensive. Wages have stagnated for years, while the costs of child...

When Walmart--which just happens to be the largest single employer in the United States--announced a few months ago that it would be raising the...

While speaking at an event focusing on alleviating poverty in the United States earlier this week, President Obama took on the lies of Fox...

It's no secret that the United States Of America has the highest prison population in the world. We build more prisons each year than...