Moving from poverty to wealth from one generation to the next is least likely in the South, but optimism there is greatest, tinged with political views. Source: NYT > Business – Patricia Cohen
What a ‘Living Wage’ Actually Means
If you ask a dozen lawmakers what constitutes a “living wage,” you’ll get a dozen answers. Where does the term come from? And is it even accurate? Source: NYT > Business – Eric Ravenscraft
Britain’s big squeeze: ‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside
In Cumbria, a bucolic landscape masks growing poverty and isolation. As bus lines are cut and services dry up under austerity, older people are feeling new constraints. Source: NYT > Business – CEYLAN YEGINSU and LAETITIA VANCON
U.N. Issues Urgent Warning on the Growing Peril of Drug-Resistant Infections
A new report says the overuse of antimicrobial drugs in humans, animals and plants is fueling resistant pathogens that could kill 10 million people annually by 2050. Source: NYT > Business – ANDREW JACOBS