Check out these poverty-related articles of note! I couldn't decide which to post, so read them all!
Big banks offer payday loans by another name
By CANDICE CHOI, AP Personal Finance Writer Aug 23, 2011
Payday loans may be coming to a bank near you.
Trusting Families to Help Themselves
By DAVID BORNSTEIN in the New York Times, July 19 2011
Modern Poverty Includes A.C. and an Xbox
By Ken McIntyre in the National Review July 18, 2011
What is poverty? Americans might well be surprised to learn from other government data that the overwhelming majority of those defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau were well-housed and adequately fed even in the recession year 2009. About 4 percent of them did temporarily become homeless.
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