Emerging Issue: America's Working Poor

The issue in our society today which I feel is the most pressing and in need of a remedy is regarding America's Working Poor.  When the recession hit at its hardest point it was the worst people had lost their jobs in about two decades.  While many say we are slowly climbing out, statistics continue to show people are still poor.  Men and women are working hard to provide for themselves and their families and they still live paycheck to paycheck.  Some are not really even making it from paycheck to paycheck.  According to an article from the Huffington Post,  approximately one in every two Americans are either low-income or earning below the poverty line.  The link below will take you to the Huffington Post where it also explains that about 50 percent of Americans are only "one emergency away from a financial crisis."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/working-poor-in-america_n_1415649.html

I really feel as if the hard working citizens in our nation had a much more fair compensation for their work we would eliminate many other problems such as, families losing their homes to foreclosure, better nutritional opportunities, less stress and depression, eliminating consumer debt, and the overall well being of our nation.  If people can't even count on the jobs they have presently to sustain them how can we dream?  How can we look forward to the future with so much instability?

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We need a solution and fast, otherwise who knows which parts of history might be repeated...

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."
Frank Lloyd Wright