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The Reality of Middle-class Life in America

January 28, 2026 Mark Orton 0

affordability is not the question…. It’s income stupid. This is a repost of an article by Ashley McNamara on LinkedIn. I recently ran the numbers […]

Sources of Poverty in the US – Matthew Desmond article – Updated

March 16, 2023 theheist 0

Original posting – 3.6.2023 Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, has a new book Poverty, by America set to […]

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