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Why Do People Tolerate Income Inequality? (Harvard Business Review)
- Dollars on the Margins (The New York Times)
- How the American economy conspires to keep wages down (The Guardian)
- America once fought a war against poverty – now it wages a war on the poor (The Guardian)
- Do work requirements help lift people out of poverty? (PBS News Hour)
- The rich pay fewer taxes than the poor, and get more services (Salon)
- The War on Poverty Has Become a War on the Poor (Time)
- Rent for the Poor Really Is Too High (Bloomberg)
- The Real Reason Americans Are Falling Behind Financially (Investopedia)
- Majority of U.S. Mayors Say Poverty Is Their Top Concern (Next City)
Social Support
- Food Stamps Put Poor Kids on Path to Success (Bloomberg)
Household Budgets & Financial Safety Net
- For a day, I was one of the millions of Americans without a bank account. It was humbling (Los Angeles Times)
- More than a third of California households have virtually no savings, are at risk of financial ruin (Pasadena Star News)
- Why half of Americans can't come up with $400 in an emergency (USA Today)
- One-third of Americans say they’d have trouble coming up with an emergency $2,000 (Market Watch)
- Nearly 7 in 10 Americans have less than $1,000 in savings (USA Today)
- Half of US working families are living paycheck to paycheck (Market Watch)
- Seeing how the highest and lowest-earners spend their money will make you think differently about 'rich' vs 'poor' (Business Insider)