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US Suburbs Bearing Brunt of Poverty Amid Downturn

WASHINGTON (Oct.7) -- Battered by the downturn, America's suburbs are bearing the brunt of poverty among those of working age that has climbed to its highest level in almost a half century, creating strains on dwindling safety-net programs focusing mostly on the inner-city poor. A pair of analyses by the nonprofit...

Deal Near on Dialysis Care for Illegal Immigrants

(Sept. 1) -- When Atlanta's public hospital closed its outpatient dialysis clinic last fall for financial reasons, some 60 poor patients, most of them illegal immigrants, were left in the lurch. Grady Memorial was hit with a lawsuit and agreed to continue providing care, but the contract for those treatments expired...

It's Mainly Rich Folks Who Are Walking Away from Their Mortgages

(July 9) -- Today's New York Times challenges the conventional wisdom with an article on the types of Americans who are walking away from their mortgages: It's mainly the rich, not the poor. "Whether it is their residence, a second home or a house bought as an investment, the rich have stopped paying the mortgage at a...

Poor Being Turned Away From Cancer Screenings

ALBANY, N.Y. (Dec. 13) -- As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according to the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network. In the unofficial survey of programs for July...