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Tag: U.S. poverty

Opinion

Don’t get too excited about ‘Opportunity Zones’ just yet

January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 - by Roger Caldwell

After almost two years in office, President Trump has laid out a policy to spend money and investments in ‘distressed communities across the country.’

Don’t get too excited about ‘Opportunity Zones’ just yet Read More
Opinion

Twin Cities gentrification continues to displace low-wage workers

October 26, 2018 - by Clarence Hightower

It’s no secret that the lack of affordable housing in Minnesota, and in particular in the Twin Cities, has remained one of our biggest issues in the 21st century.

Twin Cities gentrification continues to displace low-wage workers Read More
Business

New data paint an unpleasant picture of U.S. poverty

September 17, 2018 - by Steven Pressman, Colorado State University

The headline was that 39.7 million people were poor in 2017. This works out to 12.3 percent of the population or one in eight Americans. The good news is that the U.S. poverty rate has fallen since 2010, when it hit 15.1 percent, and is now where it was before the Great Recession.

New data paint an unpleasant picture of U.S. poverty Read More
Opinion

U.S. media continue to ignore or misrepresent poverty 

July 4, 2017July 15, 2018 - by Clarence Hightower

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty. —Ela Bhatt Something more fundamental than household economics may be reshaping journalistic attitudes toward public issues. Today’s top-drawer Washington news …

U.S. media continue to ignore or misrepresent poverty  Read More
Opinion

As threat of poverty grows, we must continue the fight against it

February 3, 2017 - by Clarence Hightower

Social-inequality trends over the past half century indicate that class divisions are growing more rigid, most are getting worse off, and those at the bottom are falling further, faster by …

As threat of poverty grows, we must continue the fight against it Read More

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