The disturbing truth about low unemployment figures in the U.K. and U.S.

By Robert A. Vella Conservatives on both sides of “The Pond” have been boasting about low unemployment figures in their Continue reading →

America’s millennials are waking up to a grim financial future

Just two years ago, the median American born in the 1980s—the cradle of millennials—had family wealth that was 34 percent Continue reading →

America’s poor becoming more destitute under Trump: U.N. expert

Poverty in the United States is extensive and is deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing Continue reading →

Why is the obesity rate continuing to rise in the U.S.?

By Robert A. Vella There is a long-held international view of Americans as being fat, lazy, and obnoxious.  How this Continue reading →

US lawmakers are redistributing income from the poor to the rich, according to massive new study

Back in 1980, the bottom 50 percent of wage-earners in the United States earned about 21 percent of all income in Continue reading →

Centrist Democrats Team Up with Corporate Lobby to Undermine Overtime Rule

When President Barack Obama unveiled the final version of his new overtime rule in May, which in December is set Continue reading →

New economic studies verify our 5-year old report about the cause of Middle Class decline

By Robert A. Vella In 2011, I statistically linked the cause of middle class decline in the U.S. to a Continue reading →

The wealthy have nearly healed from recession. The poor haven’t even started.

The Great Recession and the subsequent recovery from it have deepened the wedge between the very wealthy and everyone else Continue reading →