The study found that 49.2 percent of all American children will at some point live in a home that receives food stamps. Among black children and children living in single-parent households, the percentage is much higher: around 90 percent live in homes that receive food stamps at one stage or another. via Study: In US, [...]

David Condon died broke and alone in a zipped-up tent on the banks of a South Carolina lake, his stomach empty and his lungs filling with fluid. via Newsvine – SC man died hungry, solo in tent, baffling friends.

National unemployment is over 9%, but for some groups, the rates are much higher.  Worse, competition even for the lowest-wage jobs has gotten more intense. According to the census, 62% of disabled Americans are out of work – and now some social service agents are saying their job prospects have never been “this bad.” via [...]