ABC News, November 3, 2011, Thursday

ABC News

November 3, 2011, Thursday

ABC News (full article)

Poverty Rate Doubled in the Midwestern Rust Belt Over Past Decade


“Obviously we are not in a Great Depression,” said Linda Barrington, the managing director of Cornell University’s Institute for Compensation Studies. “We cannot make a comparison to what was happening then. But that doesn’t give us a lot to celebrate about.”