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News Round-Up: The Prosperity Paradox
When does a booming economy make a state’s residents worse-off? When rents far exceed what low-wage workers can afford to pay. In Wyoming, where the oil and gas industry is growing rapidly, unemployment has decreased and remains below the national average, while homelessness has increased. According to the Casper Star-Tribune, while the population is increasing, the Continue reading
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News Round-Up: States Don’t Fill the Gap
In 2008, the National Low Income Housing Coalition released a report detailing how, despite their tremendous efforts to do so, states were unable to make up for the shrinking availability of federal dollars for affordable housing development with their own housing funds. In the Sacramento News & Review, we read a story that brings this report Continue reading
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Talk of the Town: The Low-Wage Recovery
According to a report from the National Employment Law Project released this week, most of the jobs added during the recovery from the Great Recession have been low-wage jobs, even though the majority of those lost were middle-wage jobs. According to the report, the fastest growing occupations between the first quarter of 2010 and the Continue reading
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News Round-Up: Housing Disasters, Natural and Man-Made
In this week’s News Round-Up, we find news stories showing that both natural disasters, and the disastrous economy, have combined with the nationwide shortage of rental housing affordable to low income people to create a crisis for many American families. In Vermont, manufactured home park residents whose homes were flooded during Hurricane Irene had no Continue reading
On the Home Front 