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?
