A nice set of charts –
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/09/04/the-august-jobs-report-in-nine-charts/US Labor Market – Looking Past the Headlines
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/04/unemployment-rate-furloughs-layoffs-us-economic-recovery
Wage Growth for Low Income Workers Stalls
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/business/low-income-workers-see-biggest-drop-in-paychecks.html
Extreme Poverty – Just a Third World Phenomenon? An
astonishing piece –
“In early 2011, 1.5
million American households, including 3 million children, were living on less
than $2 in cash per person per day. Half of those households didn't have access
to in-kind benefits like food stamps, either. Worst of all, the numbers had
increased dramatically since 1996.
Those are the
astonishing findings Johns Hopkins' Kathryn Edin and the University of
Michigan's Luke Shaefer discovered after analyzing Survey of Income and Program
Participation (SIPP) data in 2012.”