The New American Poverty
(May 3, 2012) Bruce Vladeck, the former national administrator of Medicare and Medicaid during President Bill Clinton's first term, explains the societal and economic challenges our nation faces in terms of providing quality health care to all...
(May 9, 2012) After serving in Iraq, a young father returns to Reading, Pa. and battles unemployment as he and his wife fight to get a leg up in a tough economy.
(December 19, 2011) After suffering a layoff and searching for work for two years, a divorced 46-year-old father of three lands a job outside of Reading, Pa. The shift work is crucial for him to survive financially, but the hours required means he...
(December 19, 2011) A 23-year-old Reading native struggles to find stable work that will allow her to maintain her apartment and support her family.
(December 04, 2011) Reading, Pa. was recently named the poorest city in America, according to recent census figures. Forty-one percent of the city's residents live below the poverty line; good-paying work is scarce as factories and other plants...
(December 5, 2011) Tent City has been increasingly populated with the “new homeless”. Read more...
(November 29, 2011) Five years ago, Minister Steve Brigham founded an encampment for the homeless on a wooded piece of public property in Lakewood, N.J. As Americans continue to struggle to find work, the community has expanded to nearly 70 people....
(November 4, 2011) Images from Odyssey Networks, producer of "Faces of Poverty: Struggling to Make it in Reading, Pennsylvania"
(November 1, 2011) One of the nation's working poor weathering a flagging economy, Glen Kegerize of Reading, Pa., details his struggles to make ends meet in America’s poorest city.
(November 1, 2011) More about Reading, Pa., the city with the highest U.S. poverty rate; links for the G20 Summit, where world leaders grapple with the global economic crisis.
