How extreme wealth and absolute poverty have returned to disfigure the West
How extreme wealth and absolute poverty have returned to disfigure the West:
| Child poverty in the United States stopped declining and began to increase again in the US, rising from 18% in 2007 to 19% in 2008 and then to 20.7% in 2009 (while in the UK, confronted by similarly high rates of child poverty, a concerted government ... |  The Conversation |