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Three graphs from Krugman
Exhibit 1 is “deep poverty”, people living below 50 percent of the poverty line:
Exhibit 2 is real income of non-elderly households:
And Exhibit 3 is employment-based health insurance, whose decline has luckily been offset by public provision:
Things were getting worse for lots of Americans even before the slump. Now they’re getting worse faster.
via Paul Krugman
(via sarahlee310)
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When someone works for less pay than she can live on…she has made a great sacrifice for you…The ‘working poor’…are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone.
Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (via squeetothegee)(via sarahlee310)
Posted on August 24, 2011 via new wave feminism with 1,237 notes
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