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Millions of Americans live in extreme poverty. Here’s how they get by.
Kristen Wyatt/AP – Laura Fritz, 27, left, with her daughter, Adalade Goudeseune, fills out a form at the Jefferson Action Center, an assistance center in the Denver suburb of Lakewood in July 2012....
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Senior poverty is much worse than you think
Senior citizens rally on the Capitol steps in Washington on July 22, 1981, to denounce President Ronald Reagan’s proposed cuts in their Social Security benefits. (AP) One frequent knock on the official...
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These 31 charts will destroy your faith in humanity
Earlier this week, Rob Wile of Business Insider posted his graph-heavy opus: “31 Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity.” Naturally, we here at Wonkblog were all eager to see the results. But...
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Corporations had ONE JOB on gender diversity. Take a guess on whether they...
It’s no secret that women are horrendously underrepresented on corporate boards. Catalyst estimates that 16.6 percent of Fortune 500 board seats are occupied by women. Only in Finland (26.8 percent),...
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The West is on the brink of a wild horse apocalypse. (No, really.)
The West is on the verge of a serious horse crisis. That’s the upshot of a new paper in Science, which argues that the wild horse population is growing so fast that the government could soon be unable...
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Here’s where middle-class jobs are vanishing the fastest
There are a few broad trends in the U.S. economy getting lots of attention lately. The job market appears to be increasingly polarized, with high-paid and low-paid occupations growing quickly, while...
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We could breach the debt ceiling as soon as Oct. 18. Here’s what happens next.
We finally have a date for the debt-ceiling showdown. Doomsday is expected to arrive this year between Oct. 18 and Nov. 5. That’s according to a new analysis from the Bipartisan Policy Center. At some...
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Debt-ceiling doomsday comes Oct. 17. Here’s what happens next.
We have a new date for the debt-ceiling limit. According to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, doomsday will begin on Oct. 17. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. (Getty Images) That's according to a new letter...
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The scariest paragraph about the debt ceiling you’ll read today
A panicked new report from the Treasury Department insists that a failure by Congress to lift the debt ceiling could lead to a financial crisis even worse than the one in 2008: The United States has...
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