Congress needs to be developing a plan to get people back to work. That is the number one pressing need at this time. No one is addressing long term growth in employment and stabilizing the economy. I know a couple of people who lost their jobs in January and the prospects are slim to none for getting new ones.
This article is on the Washington Post page:
Millions More Thrust Into Poverty
Decade of Headway in Household Income Erased, Census Data Find
Link to the article By Carol Morello and Dan Keating
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 11, 2009
A new comprehensive economic survey shows that the recession has plunged 2.6 million more Americans into poverty, wiped out the household income gains of an entire decade and pushed the number of people without health insurance up to 46.3 million.
