5:49am: The gap between hourly compensation and productivity is at a post-war high. More
Nov 28: The number of households receiving food stamps grew by nearly 10% last year.
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Nov 20: You needed an adjusted gross income of $370,000 to get into the top 1% in 2010, up from $352,000 a year earlier
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Oct 24: There are millions of Americans living just above the poverty line. Not all are protected by the safety net.
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Sep 20: Mississippi leads states in poverty rate and lags in income, according to Census Bureau figures.
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Sep 13: Government assistance programs help keep Americans out of poverty. Unemployment insurance saved 2.3 million Americans from falling below the poverty line.
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Sep 12: Median household income falls to $50,054 in 2011 and is down 8.1% since 2007. Poverty rate drops slightly to 15.0%.
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Sep 11: The net worth of the top 1% has ballooned in recent decades, up from 125 times the wealth of the median household in 1962. More than one in five families have zero or negative net worth.
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Jun 12: In Morris County, New Jersey, food stamp rolls have swelled 240% for the middle class since the recession began.
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May 10: Economic mobility is greatest in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions and worst in the South.
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May 2: Growing income inequality has led to ballooning debt loads for the bottom 95% of Americans.
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Mar 20: The new Republican budget proposal would turn Medicaid and food stamps into block grants, and require people to work to get food stamps and other assistance.
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Mar 2: Wealth in America: New IRS data shows that the majority of 1.8 million wealthiest have net worth below $3 million, while less than 4% are truly uber-rich.
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Feb 23: Millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost in the last decade, but it's not too late for the industry to stage a comeback.
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Feb 20: It is magical thinking to believe that manufacturing can reclaim the role it had in the mid-20th century, and contribute importantly to the resurgence of today's economy.
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Feb 7: More than a third of Americans lived in households receiving government assistance in mid-2010. Medicaid and food stamps were most popular programs.
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Jan 25: The interest rate on federal student loans is scheduled to increase to 6.8% if Congress doesn't act. President Obama urged lawmakers to stop the hike in the State of the Union.
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Jan 12: A top White House economic adviser says growing income inequality is threatening the nation's financial health. Alan Krueger blames Bush tax cuts and promotes Obama policies.
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Jan 11: Nearly a third of Americans who grow up middle class face downward mobility in adulthood. And that's before the Great Recession hit, which is hurting mobility.
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Jan 4: Income inequality has been driven by the Bush tax cuts and from increased income from capital gains and dividends, a new report shows. All this benefits the rich more.
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Jan 4: It only takes $34,000 per person to be amid the richest 1% of people in the world.
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Dec 12: Today's young women make $1.17 for every $1 their moms earned back in 1980. Young men, however, aren't so lucky when it comes to the American Dream.
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Nov 28: More than 20% of Americans face economic insecurity because they don't have the savings to cope with this decline, according to a new report.
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Nov 7: The wealth gap between the oldest and youngest adult generations in America, recently expanded to its widest ever.
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