A recent Washington Post editorial addressed Michael Bloomberg and the earned-income tax credit. I include an excerpt:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he is not running for president. Yet that didn’t stop him from coming to Washington last week to promote an expansion of the earned-income tax credit as the next phase in the war on poverty. […]
Roy Goldenberg recently reported that one third of Israeli children live in poverty. I include an excerpt:
The National Insurance Institute Poverty Report for 2006 states that Israel had 1,649,800 persons living below the poverty line. The proportion of poor persons was unchanged from 2005, when there were 1,630,500 poor.
The proportion of children living below the […]
Gary Younge recently wrote an article about poverty in the United States. At one point in the article, he shows how the Bush administration has pushed more working class people into poverty. I include an excerpt:
So it would have seemed last Tuesday when the US census bureau revealed its latest findings on income, poverty and […]