Day October 23, 2007

Working class increasingly broke

Food pantries are running out of supplies while large retailers are noticing pronounced drops in spending on the days leading up to shoppers getting a paycheck. The poor and even middle income working families increasingly can’t afford to make even…

The future is drying up

Thoughts and quotes from the superb New York Times magazine feature story on drought in the southwest. The problem Lake Mead, the enormous reservoir in Arizona and Nevada that supplies nearly all the water for Las Vegas, is half-empty, and…