Ever since Shipler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004), the term working poor has entered the realm beyond industrial sociology. Put rather simply, the working poor ...

Ray Perryman is the head of The Perryman Group and serves as a distinguished professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2022, 37.9 million people (11.5% the U.S. population), ...

“My grandfather’s death, six months into the pandemic, is more than a tragedy,” Sarah Jones wrote at New York magazine, where she is a columnist, in late 2020. “His fate is as political as it is ...

It was the war cry of an Obamacare foe, uttered during a debate on the law convened by South Carolina Republican Rep. Robert Inglis in 2009. In response, Inglis politely informed his constituent that ...

It shouldn't come as a surprise. In a city that converted the common cup of joe into a high-priced addiction, a city that sports glittering stadiums and gleams with software millionaires, a city that ...

The official end of the COVID-19 emergency seems almost like an afterthought to most of us. But the working poor, who always face grave difficulties, are being subjected to a whole series of serious ...

In July a team of researchers from a Harvard-affiliated research institute and the US Census Bureau released a study on economic mobility in the United States. The results, published in the article, ...

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The novel coronavirus hit the United States in February of 2020 and is causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19 is not the same as the coronaviruses that commonly circulate among humans ...