Helen Curry reads through her shopping list while searching for foods for the "Stop Senior Hunger" food drive.
The food will be distributed to low-income seniors. (AP Photo/Messenger-Inquirer, Jenny Sevcik)

This week, the Center for Community Change (CCC) released new research that details the way low-income Americans think and talk about living on the edge. It found that the language being used by policymakers and others to describe them is turning off the very people it is supposed to help.

The project surveyed over 1,700 participants who were identified as living below 200 percent of the poverty line ( ... Read more »

Besides struggling to make ends meet because of low wages, millions of part-time workers in America also face uncertainty over when they will be called in to work. Erratic schedules and last-minute notice make it hard for these workers to find other work, go to school and make arrangements for child care or caring for aging parents.

As The New York Times reported last week:

About 27.4 million Americans work part time. The number of those part-timers who would prefer to work full time has nearly doubled since 2007, to 7.5 million. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, 47 percent of part-time hourly workers ages 26 to 32 receive a ... Read more »