Stigmabase | North America

Who are the poor Americans ? - Millions of jobs have been created in the US economy, but many Americans still live in poverty . Who are they? For nearly six years, the US economy has been generating huge numbers of jobs: nearly two million a year. Not only has the economic recovery replaced the total number of jobs lost during the ...

Don't forget the 40 percent of Americans who are struggling - Some well-known economists point to growing inequality in the U.S. and say the rich are getting richer, while the poor are stuck in low-paid jobs.

Economic Policies Adding to Poverty - We live in a time when dogs and cats grow fat and lazy one-fourth of American children grow up in poverty. Those who are on the street, who are hungry and in poor health are the ones feeling the real effects of economic policies that have made half of all Americans poor or near poor, according to new ...

Opportunity still has racial hue African-Americans are more likely to live in poverty , and children are the poorest of all. Of greatest concern should be children who are persistently poor. Those who live in poverty for more than half their childhood (before age 18) have poorer ...

HIV Infections in U.S. Disproportionately Impact Communities of Color and the Poor : - With mounting evidence that many Americans remain the invisible people with HIV/AIDS who live in poverty , have limited health literacy, are diagnosed late in ...

What It Really Means To Be Poor In America -  Poverty is more than the numbers that prove it, not at all the way the pundits who write about it describe it. And for those Americans who are just one ...

6-19 among 12,638 U.S. adults who are members of the Center's American Trends Panel, said people are poor because they don't work hard enough. View article...

America's poor subsidize wealthier consumers in a vicious income inequality cycle - White's headline captures a reality for many Americans who regularly live near the bottom of their bank account. But it also misses the other side of the coin: financial services are cheaper the richer you are. This hidden driver of income inequality is embedded in something that we use every day and ...

Half of Latin Americans are poor or at risk of poverty  - ECLAC underlined that better jobs are needed as there are many people who have a job but they remain under or slightly above the poverty line.