A Homespun Safety Net - NYTimes.com
the recession has done for the government safety net pretty much what Hurricane Katrina did for the Federal Emergency Management Agency: it’s demonstrated that you can be clinging to your roof with the water rising, and no one may come to helicopter you out.
via nytimes.com
Barbara Ehrenreich is writing a series of op-eds for the New York Times. I'm glad to see she is pushing for the spotlight of the economic crisis to be re-focused from the wealthy & middle class to those who were already facing poverty and who are truly suffering the worst from this recession.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12ehrenreich.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=ehrenreich&st=cse
