- Getting unstuck: Why some people get out of poverty and others don’t, By Michael De Groote, November 10, 2013, Deseret News: “Call it rags to rags. While many Americans believe the poor can rise up from the bottom, the statistics show otherwise. New research by Pew’s Economic Mobility Project shows that 70 percent of those who are born in the bottom fifth never climb the economic ladder. ‘One of the hallmarks of the American Dream is the belief that anyone who works hard and plays by the rules can achieve economic success,’ says Diana Elliott, who manages Pew’s research on economic mobility. While that dream may seem no longer in reach for the poorest Americans, some do move up, Elliott says…”
- Here’s who moves up the economic ladder, By Allison Linn, November 8, 2013, CNBC: “Want to move up the economic ladder? Go to college, find a spouse who works and try to avoid getting laid off. College graduates, people in dual-earner families, whites and those lucky enough to escape a bout of unemployment are also the most likely to move from the bottom fifth of the income ladder to at least the middle, according to a new Pew Charitable Trusts analysis of family income trends…”
Day: November 11, 2013
ACA and Safety-Net Hospitals
Cuts in hospital subsidies threaten safety-net care, By Sabrina Tavernise, November 8, 2013, New York Times: “The uninsured pour into Memorial Health hospital here: the waitress with cancer in her voice box who for two years assumed she just had a sore throat. The unemployed diabetic with a wound stretching the length of her shin. The construction worker who could no longer breathe on his own after weeks of untreated asthma attacks and had to be put on a respirator. Many of these patients were expected to gain health coverage under the Affordable Care Act through a major expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor. But after the Supreme Court in 2012 gave states the right to opt out, Georgia, like about half the states, almost all of them Republican-led, refused to broaden the program…”