Census: Income, poverty unchanged

Census: Income, poverty unchanged

WASHINGTON

The wallets of America’s middle class and poorest aren’t seeing any extra money, the U.S. Census reported Wednesday, a financial stagnation experts say may be fueling political dissent this campaign season.

The Census Bureau, in its annual look at poverty and income in the United States, said both the country’s median income and poverty rate were statistically unchanged in 2014 from the previous year.

Median income – the point where half of the households have income below it and half have income above it – showed no statistically significant change, despite the small drop to $53,700 in 2014 from 2013’s $54,500. Median income is a broad measure of the economic health of the middle class.

Cuomo aide dies after being shot

NEW YORK

An aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was shot in the crossfire between two gangs hours before New York City’s West Indian Day parade died Wednesday, police said.

Carey Gabay, a first deputy general counsel at the Empire State Development Corp., was shot in the head during a pre-dawn party celebrating the parade earlier this month. He was hospitalized and placed into a medically induced coma.

Earlier Wednesday, his family announced he had been declared brain dead.

2 bodies found in ruins of Calif. fire

MIDDLETOWN, Calif.

Officials searched the burned-out remains of homes in Northern California on Wednesday, looking for a former police reporter and several other people who authorities fear were killed in a fast-moving blaze in that part of the state.

About 170 southeast, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, two bodies were found inside burned-out homes Tuesday, Calaveras County coroner Kevin Raggio said.

One of the victims was identified as Mark McCloud, 65, who was found inside his residence in the Mountain Ranch area. Raggio wouldn’t release the name of the second victim, also found in Mountain Ranch, because the family has not been notified.

Student remains ID’d

MEXICO CITY

The remains of another young man among 43 missing teachers-college students has been identified by forensic experts at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, Mexico’s attorney general said Wednesday.

Attorney General Arely Gomez said the student is Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz of the town of Omeapa in the southern state of Guerrero, where the students disappeared nearly a year ago.

Associated Press