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The American middle class: disappearing?

December 12, 2009

Last week I read this article about America without a middle class by Elizabeth Warren and am still digesting its and my thoughts. Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can't make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is [...]

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Aging in the USA. Soup lines?

November 30, 2009

Thanks to the wonderful administration of king george and the ongoing economic woes, we, in a country of used-to-be plenty,  are now forcing our senior citizens into soup kitchens.     The number of seniors living alone who seek help from food pantries in the U.S. increased 81 percent to 408,000 in 2008, compared to [...]

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