by Binyamin Appelbaum New York Times March 21, 2013
WASHINGTON — The decline of two-parent households may be a significant reason for the divergent fortunes of male workers, whose earnings generally declined in recent decades, and female workers, whose earnings generally increased, a prominent labor...
Rhode Island town relies on food stamps: In Woonsocket, R.I., a third of the residents use SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, to pay for groceries. That means the businesses in the struggling town also rely on the program to survive. Photo: Michael S. Williamson/Washington Post
by Eli Saslow Washington Post March 16, 2013
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Youths’ suicides rattle Indian country: The silence that has shrouded suicide in Indian country is being pierced by growing alarm at the sheer numbers of young Native Americans taking their own lives — more than three times the national average, and up to 10 times the average on some reservations. Photo: Washington Post
by Sari Horowitz Washington Post March 10, 2013
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A single home in a block once filled with houses with the Detroit headquarters of General Motors in the distance. The company is thriving again. J.D. Pooley/Getty Images
by Monica Davey New York Times March 4, 2013
DETROIT — Private industry is blooming here, even as the city’s finances have descended into wreckage.In late 2011, Rachel Lutz opened a clothing shop, the Peacock Room, which proved so successful that she opened another one, Emerald, last fall. ...