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A report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy titled Lifting the High Energy Burden in America’s Largest Cities: How Energy Efficiency Can Improve Low Income and Underserved Communities shows that low income households, renters, and African American households face greater energy…
A report published by The Brookings Institution titled U.S. Concentrated Poverty in the Wake of the Great Recession shows a significant increase in the number of people living in concentrated poverty across the United States, particularly among blacks and Hispanics. Concentrated poverty has also…
A report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) titled Wage Inequality Continued its 35-year Rise in 2015 shows that real hourly wages in America increased from 2014 to 2015 by 2.1% only because of a sharp decline in inflation. Nominal wages have not increased and wage inequality continues to grow…
A brief by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) titled It Pays to Work: Work Incentives and the Safety Net refutes critics’ claims that safety net programs discourage work. The majority of adults in poverty have greater economic incentives to become employed, work more hours, or accept…