By Martin Bosworth Ezra Klein linked to a study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research that shows the United States as the only industrialized nation with no guaranteed paid vacation […]
The Poverty Parasites
By Martin Bosworth Over at Private Intelligence, I have a grim post that explores the depths many industries are going to squeeze money out of the impoverished, the indebted, and the uneducated. […]
Time to revamp the federal poverty threshold
According to a study from the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute (CFPI) (and reported in the Rocky Mountain News), 20% of Colorado families are struggling. Two-thirds of these families are not below the […]
