By HOPE YEN, with contributions by AP Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta, News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius and AP writer Debra McCown in Buchanan County, Va.28 July 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) – Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of […]
By David Atkins 23 July 2013 (AlterNet) – David Leonhardt has a fantastic piece about social mobility in the United States. It turns out that the American Dream, while getting more and more distant across the board, is still much more possible in some places than in others. What places? Well, surprise surprise: Climbing the […]
By Nancy Kaffer, Stephen Henderson, and Matt Helms 18 July 2013 (Detroit Free Press) – The City of Detroit is in final preparations to file for federal bankruptcy as early as Friday morning, several sources told the Free Press today. The filing would begin a 30- to 90-day period that will determine whether the city […]
By J. DAVID GOODMAN and SARAH MASLIN NIR3 July 2013 (The New York Times) – It sounds like something out of a James Bond movie: Lookouts. Scuba gear. Secret caches, hidden under floating docks. Horseshoe crabs. Horseshoe crabs? The crabs are among the incredible riches of Jamaica Bay, New York City’s wildest expanse of water, […]
By FELICITY BARRINGER and KENNETH CHANG, with additional reporting by Fernanda Santos and John Dougherty from Prescott, Arizona, and Jonathan Weisman from Washington1 July 2013 (The New York Times) – One of the deadliest wildfires in a generation vastly expanded Monday to cover more than 8,000 acres, sweeping up sharp slopes through dry scrub and […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, 19 June 2013 (Associated Press) – As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place. A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite […]
By PAUL KRUGMAN16 June 2013 (The New York Times) – Last week the International Monetary Fund, whose normal role is that of stern disciplinarian to spendthrift governments, gave the United States some unusual advice. “Lighten up,” urged the fund. “Enjoy life! Seize the day!” O.K., fund officials didn’t use quite those words, but they came […]
13 June 2013 (Daily Telegraph) – Snapshots of history documenting abandoned America and the decline of a superpower. Abandoned America Technorati Tags: North America,financial collapse,poverty,religion
By Chris Isidore14 June 2013 (CNNMoney) – Detroit will immediately stop payments on about $2 billion in debt, the city’s emergency manager announced Friday, an effort to conserve cash. The manager, Kevyn Orr, also said Detroit will need to cut pay and pension and health benefits for city workers. Debt holders are likely to get […]
By Paul McLeary31 May 2013 (Defense News) – In the latest installment of the defense industry and their Congressional representatives rallying to save DoD acquisition programs that directly affect their district/state/business, EADS North America and American Eurocopter held a rally on Thursday in Columbus, Mississippi to try and “save” the UH-72A Lakota helicopter program. In […]
