Moneybox: Young, Poor, and Desperate

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moneybox Young, Poor, and Desperate The poverty crisis is devastating young Americans. Here's what the president can do about it. By Eliot Spitzer Posted Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, at 7:12 AM ET America excels in dramatic crises: When a bank goes bust, when a tornado strikes, there's no country in the world that rises to the occasion better. But we don't do so well with the accretive and perhaps more widely destructive social shifts that creep up on us, which is why the realization that we have a full-fledged poverty crisis is so troubling. Publication of the Census Bureau's 2010 annual report on income--as dry a data set as there could be--reveal a shocking rise in poverty. To continue reading, click here. Eliot Spitzer is the former governor of the state of New York. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Michael Vick's Head Injury Is the NFL's Worst Nightmare Netflix To Split Into Two Companies How Does a Rogue Trader Lose So Much Money Without Anyone Noticing?	Advertisement
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