Reply #24: about time someone wrote about this [View All]

[oxbow]

I live in VA, but It is not much better here either, I believe. I would love to see journalists from different states work together and create a series on this subject. The growing gap between the rich and poor, the extra long hours americans work compared to other places in the developed world, the scores of people working as hard as they can just to keep their heads above water; all this points to a dramatic yet largely unnoticed breakdown of the American Dream. This is a subject that people need to know about. Its very sad that the news focuses on celebrities and cause celebres at the expense of issues like this, which affect most of us far more directly.