Let’s Strengthen our Safety Net
One in seven Americans–a record high of 43.6 million people–was poor last year.
One in seven Americans–a record high of 43.6 million people–was poor last year.
Congress should get the money for its jobs bill by taxing the multibillion-dollar bonuses that Wall Street bankers are paying out to themselves.
He would literally take the food out of the mouths of people in real need.
Wall Streeters land just fine, but kids in dire poverty slip right through.
Nine months into the stimulus, with double-digit unemployment, we need a full-scale emergency relief plan.
Like the levees in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the safety net is failing Americans battered by the ‘Great Recession’ of 2008-2009.
Our ‘social safety net’ isn’t holding up at a time when we need it most.
The economic crisis is still on the rise for millions of Americans, while at the same time the social safety net is failing to support many of them.