Threat of unemployed losing food stamps

On Dec. 2, 2013, USA Today ran this story about the likelihood of millions of people in this country losing both food stamps AND unemployment benefits shortly after Christmas: LINK

Unemployed in Spain and U.S.

Unemployed waiting in line in Spain. Just a few months ago, this could have been Chicago, or New York, or San Francisco!

Gap widens between rich and poor in U.S.

The plight of the ordinary individual is related to the huge and growing gap between the rich, and everyone else. This article published by USA Today in March of 2014 proposes that, instead of looking at the gap between the income of the top 1% and that of the average family (a gap of 41 to 1), we should look at the annual income of the top .1%, whose income is 206 times greater than that of the average family. LINK