Bruce Springstein
The poverty rate rose to 14.3 percent during 2009 from 13.2 percent the previous year as household income stayed flat and the number of people without health insurance reached its highest level since such data has been collected, the government announced Thursday. The first year of Barack Obama’s presidency started with 700,000 people losing their […]
Today as we observe Labor Day we have to remember that youth unemployment is still at a record high number and it’s only getting higher. Young people are the ones that drive the economy and since the recession hit unemployment numbers reported by the International Labor Organization (ILO) are staggering. Worldwide, the ILO estimates 81 […]
VIA HUFFPOST More than a thousand people gathered Wednesday outside a metro-Atlanta shopping mall in hopes of being placed on a waiting list for federal housing assistance. Fights broke out, children were reportedly trampled, and police had to stop the crowd from storming a nightclub being used by the East Point Housing Authority in East […]
Yet another wave of shootings swept across Chicago on Thursday night and Friday morning, leaving seven people dead and 15 wounded. The carnage pushed the city’s murder toll to 97 so far this year, up from 81 by this date last year. This latest round of bloodshed was not as extensive as that two weeks […]
The nation’s economy posted its largest job gain in three years in March, while the unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent for the third straight month. The increase in payrolls is the latest sign that the economic recovery is gaining momentum and healing in the job market is beginning. Still, the healing is likely to […]
It’s Murda! Seems like people are getting bodied everyday in NYC. Murders are up dramatically in New York City this year. Gunplay across the five boroughs has gone up and so has the body count. The Daily News study of NYPD statistics shows that the citywide murder rate has increased 22.8% in the first 11 […]