About 44 million Americans - one in seven - lived last year in homes in which the income was below the poverty level, which is about $22,000 for a family of four. That is the largest number of people since the census began tracking poverty 51 years ago.
As I said previously, there is plenty of blame to go around in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. BP is now getting around to naming names and so far I was on the money, though they fail to mention lax government oversight, but then again, why would they burn that bridge? From FastCompany.com: BP’s...
This is the downside of hanging everything out there--Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress; it all becomes incriminating information.