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washington post staff writer thursday

"...the gloomiest assessment of economic well-being in close to half a century..."

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"Only four in 10 said they have moved forward in the past five years -- a record low, Pew says, and far off the record 57 percent who in 1997 said they had moved forward in the previous five years."

I don't think I know any of the folks who've actually moved forward, and I'll be that the majority of them aren't taking into account the in

"...24 percent of single homeless people and 47 percent of homeless adults in families were working, "

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Next time you see folks who you think are homeless, remember that one in four of them most likely is working full-time somewhere. The others may indeed have part-time jobs or have issues in their personal lives that create barriers to employment for them, but that doesn't mean they don't want a job....

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