Census: Rich-poor gap widens

The income of American households continued to shift dramatically in 2011, falling sharply for middle-income and working-age people while rising for top earners and seniors, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday.

Census: Middle class shrinks to an all-time low

Kristen Wyatt/AP - In this July 16, 2012, photo, Laura Fritz, 27, left, with her daughter Adalade Goudeseune fills out a form at the Jefferson Action Center, an assistance center in the Denver suburb of Lakewood. Both Fritz grew up in the Denver suburbs a solidly middle class family, but she and her boyfriend, who has struggled to find work, and are now relying on government assistance to cover food and $650 rent for their family.

VIDEO: Man stabs another man repeatedly in the buttocks

A surveillance video released by the NYPD Monday night shows the attacker, clad in a white T-shirt and grey sweatpants, trail his 48-year-old victim inside the shop on 63rd Rd. in Forest Hills on Sunday, shortly before 6 p.m.

State teachers unhappy with new grade letter evaluations
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As Chicago Teachers Strike, Students Are on the Loose and at Loose Ends

CHICAGO — For hundreds of thousands of families here, ordinary life has turned upside down. As Chicago public schoolteachers on Wednesday spent a third day on picket lines, their students could be found in contingency programs at schools, in churches and in costly day care centers. Some slept late, stayed home alone, then wandered their neighborhoods as if there were one more chapter of summer.