President Barack Obama awoke today to furious reaction to his last-minute debt deal, with experts slamming the agreement as a cruel means of hitting middle classes with tax hikes ‘through the back door’....
The crumbling U.S. economy is putting an extraordinary amount of financial stress on American families. For many Americans, "flat broke" has become a permanent condition....
For 28 years, Cathy Hartley of Glastonbury brought home a good paycheck from her job at Aetna. But last Tuesday, she was in line with her two young granddaughters for free produce from Mobile Foodshare...