WASHINGTON, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Azteca America television network is proud to feature Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor for the Vice President, on this week's broadcast of "Issues: Caras y Voces," hosted by veteran Latino journalist Armando Guzman. Jared Bernstein started working as Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor for Joe Biden in December 2008.

By Stacey Burling, The Philadelphia Inquirer Sep. 5--The rich really are getting richer in Pennsylvania. And, according to a new report on wages, everybody else is getting poorer.

By John M. Broder It is asserted both as fact and as argument: the United States needs a constant flow of immigrants to perform jobs that Americans will not stoop to do.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White Americans have nearly four times the net worth of racial minorities and nearly twice the income, but the gap shrank slightly between 2001 and 2004, a study of Federal Reserve data showed on Wednesday.

By Andrea Hopkins WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's a long way to go for a silver lining, but poverty activists are hoping the deprivation exposed by Hurricane Katrina will prompt the U.S Congress to do what it hasn't done since 1997: Raise the minimum wage.