Tag: Poor
U.S. poorer than it thinks
What does it mean to be poor? Currently there are two basic ways to define poverty. To get a better measure of who needs...
The working poor need help
Bloomberg recently reported on some interesting new data from the Economic Policy Institute. The percent of Americans earning poverty wages – pay that would...
Tax cuts for rich don’t boost economy
Economists who lean toward the free-market side of the ideological spectrum often say that tax cuts help the U.S. economy by encouraging people to...









