Data on Rising Poverty and Declining Incomes Should Serve as a Call to Action

The U.S. Census released data earlier in the month showing poverty on the rise and incomes declining. That incomes have fallen and poverty is rising might not seem to be such a surprise as we confront...

It's no secret that our economy has undergone a dramatic transformation in the past three decades. In Los Angeles and elsewhere, hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs have been replaced by service sector jobs, many of them low paid. This shift has contributed to the rapid growth of poverty and...