The Economy is Going Right Down the Tubes

Up to 30 percent of the American population is at or is heading towards poverty:

A shocking report from Brookings exposes just how massive America's poverty problem is. While substantial reductions in poverty were made during the 1990's, America's poor have been rocked by the dual economic downturns since 2000.


The result is that poverty grew at twice the rate of U.S. population growth from 2000 - 2008, and now encompasses 39.1 million Americans.

Meanwhile, the Senate should quit taking unemployment benefits and COBRA out of its legislation and quit playing fucking games with people's lives.

The economy isn't expected to turn around for a couple of years at the very earliest.