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Driving Home Economic Recovery, a new report from Live Local Marin, provides compelling new reasons to increase opportunities for people with strong roots in Marin to live closer to where they work. The report finds that even a modest level of workforce housing production will…
The Census Bureau released national data on the latest patterns and trends in poverty, income, and health insurance coverage on September 16. The data show that the poverty rate is at its highest level since 1994, increasing from 13.2% in 2008 to 14.3% in 2009, a significant jump of 1.1% in just…
Poverty rates across the country are growing faster in the suburbs than in cities and rural areas, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. As of 2008, the nation’s suburbs housed nearly a third of the nation’s low income people…
A recent poll from the New York Times and CBS illustrates the link between the current recession and the foreclosure and eviction crises.
Unemployed respondents were asked the question, “As a result of being unemployed, have you been threatened with foreclosure or eviction for…