Could you imagine spending the holidays in a homeless shelter, in a tent city surrounded by drug addicts and prostitutes, or in a sleeping bag on the cold, hard streets of an […]
Homeless For The Holidays
Half Of The Population Of The World Is Dirt Poor – And The Global Elite Want To Keep It That Way
Could you survive on just $2.50 a day? According to Compassion International, approximately half of the population of the entire planet currently lives on $2.50 a day or less. Meanwhile, those hoarding […]
Desperately Poor Teens In America’s Impoverished Inner Cities Are Trading Sex For Food
When people get hungry enough, they will do just about anything for some food. According to brand new research that was just released this week from Feeding America and the Urban Institute, […]
Tent Cities Are Springing Up In Cities All Over America As The Economy Deteriorates
Just like during the last economic crisis, homeless encampments are popping up all over the nation as poverty grows at a very alarming rate. According to the Department of Housing and Urban […]
58 Economic Numbers From 2015 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
The world didn’t completely fall apart in 2015, but it is undeniable that an immense amount of damage was done to the U.S. economy. This year the middle class continued to deteriorate, […]
Suicide, Crime, Unemployment And Poverty All Soar As The Economic Crisis In Alberta Accelerates
The nightmare that is currently unfolding up in Canada will soon be coming to the United States. When the price of oil first started crashing, most Americans and most Canadians applauded. Most […]
Sayonara Middle Class: 22 Stunning Pieces Of Evidence That Show The Middle Class In America Is Dying
Once upon a time, middle class households took home 62 percent of all income in America. Today, that number has dropped to just 43 percent. This is just one of the absolutely […]
The Bitter, Crushing Poverty Of Appalachia Is A Preview Of What Is Coming To The Rest Of The Country
What do you say to people that have completely lost all hope that things will ever get any better? The mountains of Appalachia stretch all the way from southern New York to […]
21 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind
What you are about to see is more evidence that the growth of poverty in the United States is wildly out of control. It turns out that there is a tremendous amount […]
46 million Americans go to food banks, and long lines for dwindling food supplies begin at 6:30 AM
Those that run food banks all over America say that demand for their services just continues to explode. It always amazes me that there are still people out there that insist that […]
1 Out Of 5 Millennials Live In Poverty
One in five young adults – ages 18 to 34 years old – live in poverty, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. “More millennials are living in poverty today, and […]
America’s real hunger game: 50 million in crisis
In the richest country in the world, nearly 1 in 6 Americans go to bed hungry. As the holiday season of giving approaches, the slow recovery from the 2008 recession and cuts […]
14 Facts That Prove That The Number Of Children Living In Poverty This Christmas Is At A Record High
Did you know that 65 percent of all children in the United States live in a home that receives aid from the federal government? We live at a time when child poverty […]
Wal-Mart Asks Workers To Donate Food To Its Needy Employees
An Oklahoma Wal-Mart store is holding a food drive for its own employees, according to labor organizers. The group Making Change At Wal-Mart posted a photo of the food drive to its Facebook page on Thursday. The photo shows a cardboard bin with a sign attached that reads:
California Poverty Rate: 23.4 Percent
California continues to have – by far – the nation’s highest level of poverty under an alternative method devised by the Census Bureau that takes into account both broader measures of income and the cost of living. Nearly a quarter of the state’s 38 million residents (8.9 million) live in poverty, a new Census Bureau report says, a level virtually unchanged since the agency first began reporting on the method’s effects.
13 Suburban Cities With The Largest Poverty Increases
Are you living in poverty? Or are you living near it? Are you living in a “slumurban” home?
What economic recovery? How poverty is moving to suburbs
During the 2000s, the poor population living in high-poverty urban neighborhoods grew by 21 percent to reach 5.9 million. In the suburbs it more than doubled, swelling by 105 percent to reach […]
Shock Report: 70 Million People Would Be Starving in the Streets Without Government Welfare Programs
A recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services suggests that we may have already reached the tipping point and that things are only going to get worse going forward. […]
How the South is becoming a solid band of poverty: One in three live in poor neighborhoods
The number of Americans living in poor neighborhoods has skyrocketed in the last decade – and nowhere is the trend more prominent than in the South, where more than 30percent of the […]
What American Dream? One-Fourth Of All Americans Now Live In High-Poverty Neighborhoods
According to the Census Bureau, in 2010, roughly 14.9 percent people were living under the poverty line. In America that’s defined as a family of four (two adults, two kids) surviving on […]
Advocates Say New York City Hunger Problem Is Reaching Crisis Levels
New York City’s hunger problem is now a crisis, according to those who work with people who need help. One in six New Yorkers is now living in a home where there […]
Detroit collapses into third-world ruin as nearly HALF the residents can no longer afford to pay for running water
America’s once-thriving auto capital has become a third-world catastrophe, with nearly half of its residents now unable to pay their water bills. Reports indicate that roughly 50 percent of Detroit residents are […]
Poverty Up 30.5% Since LBJ Declared War on Poverty, For People 18 to 64
The percentage of 18- to 64-year olds who live below the poverty level has increased 30.5% since 1966, two years after Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty, according to the latest […]
Video: Does The Government Punish Poor People For Working Harder?
You may have heard the term “poverty trap” — the notion that the poor are stuck at the bottom. What if someone told you that our welfare system exacerbates this cycle by […]
