Tag: poor
The fact that the richest Americans are grabbing such a big slice of the pie isn’t exactly breaking news. What is news is that Wall Street is getting nervous about it. Moody’s Investors Service, a private watchdog for the federal government’s fiscal soundness, has concluded that inequality has reached the point that it threatens a…
Minimum-wage workers in 21 states and Washington D.C. will have larger paychecks this year. But it’s still extremely difficult to eke out a living on the minimum wage, as demonstrated by this video game. The game, “Spent,” was actually the topic of Squared Away’s very first blog in 2011 and is worth featuring again. T…