Stories by Heather Boushey
One in five don't earn enough to make ends meet and six years of Bushenomics has inflicted new hardships.
Posted on Oct 13, 2007
New data show that while top earners are OK, this may be the first upswing in history in which middle-class families never fully rebound.
Posted on Aug 30, 2007
While the rich are getting richer, they're slashing social security, medicare and other social programs for the rest of us. What gives?
Posted on Jul 18, 2007
Last year it was the "opt-out" myth, and this year the story is about opting back in. Both tales defy the hard evidence.
Posted on Jun 9, 2007
Today is Equal Pay Day -- an anti-holiday that marks how far into 2007 a woman must work to earn as much as a man earned last year.
Posted on Apr 24, 2007
In the struggle to balance work and family, work is winning. Democrats need to take back the values issue and promote economic policies that recognize that workers have families.
Posted on Mar 21, 2007
A decade after welfare reform, most former recipients still live in poverty. But now they have crappy jobs, too.
Posted on Aug 24, 2006
Women live longer, earn less and fill more caretaking roles than men. For all these reasons, they stand to lose the most if Social Security is changed.
Posted on Feb 15, 2005
The administration wants welfare moms to work 40 hours per week with no additional money to help pay for child care.
Posted on Mar 8, 2004
