The lame duck mayor of New York City has really been speaking his mind lately: From his affinity for women in high heels, to the idea that the NYPD doesn't harass enough minorities. On his own radio show yesterday, he even decided to open up about New York City's lack of affordable housing and record homelessness.…
Why are members of Generation Y unhappy? Because they're delusional yuppies who think they're special? Or because they've been born into a economic hellscape created by their parents?
A real estate development company looking to score million in tax breaks by building affordable units inside a luxury apartment complex has come under fire for its proposal to install two separate entrances — one for its rich tenants, the other for its poor.
In a sign of our part-time recovery, four out of every five American adults face joblessness or poverty at some point during their lives.
Happy Memorial Day! The United States is the only rich country that doesn't guarantee paid vacation days or holidays to its workers.
If you're a conservative politician looking to make sure the American underclass eventually dies off either through malnutrition or disease, boy, has it been a pretty great week for you!
Meeting with journalists this morning, Pope Francis laid out his vision for the Catholic church, which includes cutting spending on ornate ceremony and instead spending that money on the poor. He urged excited fellow-Argentines to skip the costly trip to Rome to visit the first non-European Pope in almost 1,300 years,…
The 20 richest people on Earth lost a combined $11.3 billion yesterday…in their couch cushions.
Liberals can finally stop occupying Wall Street and screeching pointlessly on their insular blog sites: President Barack Obama is going to tax the rich! He's finally standing up to Wall Street and throwing all his weight behind this symbolic gesture which will do little to fill the yawing gap of empire-induced debt!…
Given that the nation's credit rating bureaus have names that are somewhat nightclubby — "see you later on at Club Experian!" — it almost makes sense that they maintain VIP lists. Almost.
The Texas House has passed a bill requiring voters to bring ID to polling places. Which is great! If your aim is to surpress minority and low-income voters, without even addressing the problem you made up as an excuse.
Today we pointed out telltale signs that you are a poor person living in the city. Many of you came up with your own, but one commenter really took the cake. The poverty cake.
Just a few years ago, venture capitalists pushed Internet startups to conquer every last corner of the world. Now they're asking why they don't just pull the plug on the Third World.
Angry Londoners are having pitched fruit-throwing battles with bankers in the street. The French are making billionaires call riot police to escort their taxis. And us? We're too busy abandoning our pleasure craft.
The US government has released "numbers" and "statistics" about the month of February, and how it went for us, the American people, in terms of "jobs." It went poorly.
When the good commercials disappear from TV, what are you left with? Unceasing Recession-themed ads. Like these! Cars, services, lottery tickets, infomercials—they all feel your pain! Over, and over, and over...
You know what's great about making $19,000 a year catering to obscenely wealthy art collectors? When the recession hits, you can laugh at your laid-off banker friends!
In the L Magazine's most recent "Money" issue, Adam Bonislawski makes the point that striving to become a middle-class New Yorker is a.) hard, and b.) perhaps not worth the effort, "like swimming the English Channel or climbing Everest without oxygen, or translating the Bible into LOLcats." Sounds familiar!
The visual shortcut for celebs-in-philanthropy is Natalie Portman looking fresh-faced in a t-shirt — at least in Sunday's NYT Magazine article, "The Celebrity Solution." As PR man Howard Bragman puts it, "You can't just get $20 million a picture, you've got to serve turkeys to the poor, too." Our favorite part is the…
We relayed this from an Australian report back in July—and now every media outlet agrees that the Hilton pater familias Barron Hilton will not be leaving his fortune to his hideous family. Funny thing! Paris Hilton, at least, doesn't need the money. The sex tape and her business acumen have taken care of that. Now,…
