Lunch Break: What You Need To Know About Getting A Job This Week

It's a chilling statistic; the national poverty level is primed to reach its highest rate since 1965. The situation was so dire back then that President Lyndon Johnson felt moved to launch the War on Poverty. But its advances are at risk of falling by the wayside as the national poverty rate is expected climb as high as 15.7 percent this year, according to a survey of more than a dozen economists by The Associated Press. The news comes during a particularly grim week in the United States, when so much of the news is dominated by the massacre at the movie theater in Aurora, Colo. Below are the week's top reads for jobs stories: