It's almost a good news-bad news situation. The good news is more people are joining the workforce.

The poverty rate seems to be the last lonely lagging indicator of the business cycle.

There's still a ton of people who need services and advocacy. It's good beginning news, but we just need to keep moving forward.

That is incredible news. Again, if this turns out to be true... we have not been able to independently confirm this... but the family members have been told... that the 12 miners are alive.

It's great news, but we shouldn't take comfort in it. It can take up to five years (to go through the ESA listing process). I don't think we have five years.

I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, something worse was happening,