Yes, while many privileged Americans are spending their hard earned dollars in resting from jobs that pay them enough to enjoy this Labor Day weekend, there are many that will see it as just another day of struggle.
While the article is a good one, it is likely to be dismissed by our Conservative Americans as biased reporting from a "Right-wing Liberal" publication. Sadly, our nation's poor hang between a number of rocks (in Congress), and the hard truths of a growing poverty class.
Last night we listened to an audio clip of a speech given in the RNC, and mention was made of the current administration's failure to get jobs for the 23 million unemployed, and wondered just how that could've been accomplished with the current Congress quagmire the Administration faces. While looking into sources less biased, I found this statement in
Politifact.com: "a president's ability to influence the economy is severely limited."
While our nation's politicians fight over the scrap of power between them, millions of American's lives are at stake, as your cited article describes. More than 45 million Americans live in poverty, according to current statistics, but it is likely to be worse, according to
another article found, because: "That method of calculating who is poor and who is not has been under fire by researchers for years because it doesn’t calculate the benefits of anti-poverty programs — such as food stamps and housing subsidies — into its formula."
Furthermore, with not enough jobs to satisfy the existing demand, the poor have a continually increased threat of dropping off grid -- as millions of current homeless have already.
It is REALLY time for Americans to wake up and pull together. To stop seeing the poor as deserving of their situation, and get people working so they can improve their lives. It is going to take a lot of compromise, ingenuity, and stepping out of comfort zones if we are going to overcome this situation.
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