Inequality in America
Poverty and hunger on the rise in the US
By David Walsh, November 27, 2008
More than 30 million people in the US are now dependent on food stamps, a benefit available to the poor, according to figures soon to be released. The number of people using food stamps jumped 9.6 per...
WSWS interviews workers at Detroit “poverty summit”
November 17, 2008
On Thursday, November 13, the World Socialist Web Site sent reporters to Cobo Center in downtown Detroit to interview young workers and social workers attending the Detroit Poverty Summit about the di...
Declining social conditions of students and youth in the US
By Ed Hightower, November 12, 2008
As the world financial crisis deepens, young workers and students in the US face increasing economic hardship and declining job prospects.
Utility cut-offs on the rise in the US
“More than an energy issue, a serious public health issue”
By Tom Eley, November 6, 2008
Utility companies are suspending heating and electrical service to customers at a far higher rate than in previous years, according to a recent Wall Street Journal story.
WSWS speaks with family members of Michigan fire victims
By the, November 1, 2008
WSWS reporter D'Artagnan Collier spoke to family members and a teacher of one of the victims of the fire in Highland Park, Michigan which killed four people on Wednesday, October 22.
Detroit residents denounce social decay in fire deaths
October 30, 2008
The following video is part of a series by the World Socialist Web Site reporters on the dire social conditions prevailing former auto production centers in Detroit.
Detroit residents and firemen denounce social decay in fire deaths
By Daniel Douglass and D’Artagnan Collier and Tim Tower, October 29, 2008
Residents and firemen in Highland Park, Michigan have denounced the social conditions that led to the deaths of three children in a tragic house fire last week.
Highland Park, Michigan residents speak on deadly fire
October 24, 2008
The World Socialist Web Site sent a reporting team to Highland Park, Michigan, where a house fire killed four people in the early morning hours of Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Residents spoke to the W...
Detroit area house fire kills four
By Tom Eley, October 23, 2008
Early Wednesday morning three children and their great aunt died in a house fire in Highland Park, Michigan. The likely cause of the fire was an electrical space heater the family was using for warmth...
Stella D’oro strikers rally in the Bronx, New York
By A. Wood and Steve Light, October 22, 2008
Two hundred bakery workers, on strike at the Stella D’Oro plant in the Bronx, New York for more than two months, held a rally Saturday to oppose wage-cutting demands by the private equity firm, whic...
Housing crisis accelerates blight in Detroit neighborhoods
By Debra Watson and Anne Moore, October 21, 2008
Dire conditions in a once prosperous East Side Detroit neighborhood underscore the impact the wave of home foreclosures is having on working people across the US.
US infant mortality rate now worse than 28 other countries
By Patrick O’Connor, October 18, 2008
A report issued Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that at least 28 other countries now have lower death rates for infants in the first year of life.
