Union members hold up “I want to work” placards as they join a protest of several thousand people demanding jobs outside City Hall in Los Angeles on August 13, 2010. Even the criminals have fallen on hard times in America’s poorest city as the long-term unemployed struggle to keep a grasp on normality. Richard Gaines is one of the best-known faces on Camden’s Haddon Avenue.... 

Death of US Economy (click on the image to enlarge) Spiraling debt is Uncle Sam’s shock collar, and its jolt may await like an invisible pet fence. “Nobody knows when you bump up against the limit, but you know when it happens it will really hurt,” said fiscal watchdog Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The great uncertainty about how much debt is too...