Inequality in America
“Working Poor” report: Nearly 30 percent of US families subsist on poverty wages
By Tom Eley, October 16, 2008
A report released Tuesday by the Working Poor Families Project reveals that more than 28 percent of American families with one or both parents employed are living in poverty.
Fires claim lives of seven in New York City
By Bill Van Auken, October 14, 2008
Two deadly fires that broke out in separate working class neighborhoods of New York City over the weekend claimed the lives of seven people, four of them children.
WSWS: New York workers denounce Wall Street bailout
October 5, 2008
While congress debated the $700 billion bailout of the Wall Street banks, the World Socialist Web Site spoke on the streets of New York to workers and young people who denounced the bailout of the ban...
California: foreclosures and homeless on the rise
By Rafael Azul, September 27, 2008
Stagnating wages, increasing unemployment and rising food and fuel prices are driving a wave of foreclosures in California, forcing hundreds of thousands into destitution. The housing crisis has left ...
The ties that bind: Dodd, Schumer and Wall Street
By Barry Grey, September 24, 2008
There is nothing mysterious about the abject servility exhibited by the members of the Senate Banking Committee toward Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at Tue...
As economic crisis deepens, rich get richer
Forbes publishes list of 400 wealthiest Americans
By Tom Eley, September 24, 2008
Even as the US careens into its greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression, the financial aristocracy whose parasitism and criminality has brought on the crisis has held its own—and t...
Paulson warns: No limits on CEO pay
By Barry Grey, September 23, 2008
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson opposed proposals from some Democrats as well as Republicans that the Bush administration’s plan for a massive taxpayer bailout of the most powerful banks and...
Obama’s response to financial meltdown: Deception and subservience to Wall Street
By Bill Van Auken, SEP vice presidential candidate, September 19, 2008
As hundreds of millions of people in the US and around the world confront the onset of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, with all of its implications for their jobs, ...
Unemployment and poverty grip New York State
By Sandy English, September 18, 2008
Two new surveys issued by the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) highlight the increasingly bleak economic situation for New York State’s workers and professionals.
WSWS interviews director of homeless shelter in LA
September 10, 2008
The World Socialist Web Site interviewed Dwight Smith, director of Isaiah House, an emergency shelter in Santa Ana, California, about the rise in the number of homeless people, especially among the wo...
New York: city and state universities face deep budget cuts
Students’ thoughts
By Peter Kloze, September 9, 2008
Hundreds of thousands of students in New York City’s public university system have returned to classes for the fall term to learn that the state legislature has approved drastic cuts in funding ...
High fuel prices impoverish New York City taxi drivers
September 3, 2008
On September 4, 2008, the World Socialist Web Site published,
