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    Obama's SOTU Address Calls for Middle-Class Revival, But Poverty & Inequality Still Get Short Shrift

    President Obama opened his State of the Union with a call to revive the middle class and with a challenge to a divided Congress to back his economic proposals to create jobs. We get reaction from Bob Herbert, distinguished senior fellow with Demos, and Cathy Cohen, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and founder of the Black Youth Project. "Median income in the United States has gone down since the recession ended,"...
    Feb 13, 2013 | Story
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    Time for a Raise in the Minimum Wage

    The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is rapidly approaching, commemorating the historic Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington. King’s words from that National Cathedral speech ring true today, as we face again the crisis of poverty and hunger.
    Jun 06, 2013 | Columns & Articles