At first glance, the federal Department of Labor monthly report released August 1 seemed to contain good news: the unemployment rate fell from 6.4 percent in June to 6.2 percent in July.
This past weekend thousands of Americans gathered in Washingtonjoined in spirit, no doubt, by millions of their compatriots throughout the countryto celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the historic March on Washington that occurred August 28, 1963.
As members of Congress left Washington for their summer recess, they left behind a lot of unfinished business that children and families urgently needed them to address. They didn't give the 12 million children in 6.5 million hardworking tax-paying military and civilian families the tax refunds given to wealthier families.