While the big network carriers struggled, low-cost airlines like Southwest and JetBlue have proved most nimble, posting consistent profits and grabbing market share.
Millions of low to struggling low to middle income families are on the edge of financial meltdown, using credit to pay for living essentials such as rent and fuel, a report claims.
The big losers are children, our poorest group in America, and struggling low- and middle-income families trying to stay afloat in our economy.
"It's not the struggling, low-income people.
This might mean lost jobs for an already struggling low-skill workforce.
Spending on education and, especially, health care will be slashed, with the heaviest toll falling on struggling low-wage workers and their children.
"You have struggling low-wage workers and an employer who's decided to play hardball in a state that's usually pretty receptive to unions.
The struggling low-fare carrier Independence Air is ending service to five airports this fall including Kennedy Airport in New York and Stewart International in Newburgh, N.Y., and is eliminating its once-daily flights to San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle, though continuing to fly to Las Vegas.
But it leaves behind the rest of the city's struggling low-wage work force, and it leaves New York City behind other major cities in the wage level it sets".
As a struggling, low-income New York artist hoping to become a mother in the next five years, I wonder what could have made Ms. Perelman so utterly desperate for help adjusting to motherhood.
There are also more flagship Macy's locations in top-tier malls, while J.C. Penney's showrooms tend to land in struggling, low-traffic malls, noted Christina Boni, Moody's vice president.
