Minimum Wage Workers and Poverty
Q: Is a minimum-wage worker officially in poverty? A: A single person working full time at the minimum wage would be barely above the poverty line. A single parent would be below it. FULL QUESTION I...
View ArticleA Short Piece on Obama’s Peace Speech
Yesterday President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, and made some remarks that could use a bit of context and explanation. Obama said that "billions have been lifted from...
View Article‘Second Poorest’ Nation?
In a September 10 press conference, President Barack Obama characterized Afghanistan as "the second poorest country in the world." It’s an impoverished country indeed, but second poorest? The CIA World...
View ArticleAnother Rick Perry Whopper
Texas Gov. Rick Perry makes another wildly false claim in a new Web ad — saying that the U.S. poverty rate has hit an “all-time high.” In fact, the rate is the highest since 1993, but 7.3 percentage...
View ArticleA New Front in the ‘War on Women’
Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Ed Gillespie distorted some economic facts on “Meet the Press” when he accused President Obama of creating a U.S. economy that is “hostile” to women. Gillespie said the...
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Bachmann Botches Poverty Stats
Rep. Michele Bachmann was wrong on two counts when she claimed today’s poverty rate is “only slightly below where it was in 1964″ and that the small improvement in the rate “came with a $20 trillion...
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