My life on the streets
When my family fell on hard times, I learned that the poor live in a parallel America
Thursday, Apr 18, 2013 9:27 PM UTCLife AlterNet, Poverty, Charity, Pride
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Life AlterNet, Poverty, Charity, Pride
MLK’s “Two Americas” truer than ever
The inequality King highlighted continues to grow worse
Wednesday, Apr 10, 2013 9:58 PM UTCPolitics BillMoyers.com
Bank stole your house? Have 10 pitchforks’ worth of compensation
Alexis Goldstein is listing items victims of wrongful foreclosure can afford with piddling OCC settlement sums SLIDE SHOW
Tuesday, Apr 9, 2013 9:15 PM UTCBusiness slideshow, forclosure, occ
ACLU: Ohio illegally jailing debtors
The modern-day debtors' prisons push poor defendants further into destitution
Sunday, Apr 7, 2013 7:31 PM UTC 19News Ohio, Prison, Debt, debtors' prison
Incomes of bottom 90 percent grew $59 in 40 years
During the same period, average income for the top 10 percent of Americans rose by $116,071
Monday, Mar 25, 2013 9:12 PM UTC 43Business Poverty, Income inequality
Republicans love poor people now
The party that forever demonized struggling Americans now realizes it needs them, in order to survive. Oops
Saturday, Mar 23, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 87Politics Republican Party, Ronald Reagan
The problem with food banks
They may compound the very problems they should be solving
Friday, Mar 15, 2013 12:53 PM UTCLife The Walrus, Food, Poverty, Canada
Robert Reich: Raising the minimum wage is only fair
Bumping the hourly rate up to $9.00 would put more money into the hands of families who desperately need it VIDEO
Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 10:00 PM UTCBusiness Video, RobertReich.org
Pope Francis, please remember the women!
Reversing the Church's retrograde notions of gender may be the sternest challenge of the new papacy
Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 4:40 PM UTC 14Social Religion Dispatches
Francis I: The pope of the 99 percent?
The first Jesuit pope may be deeply conservative on many issues, but his religious order is cause for hope
Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 12:00 PM UTC 93Life Pope Francis I, Papal enclave
Public libraries: The new homeless shelters
They're hiring social workers, nurses and other outreach workers to serve their neediest visitors
Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 1:09 PM UTCLife AlterNet, Libraries, Homelessness
Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle
The Venezuelan leader was often marginalized as a radical. But his brand of socialism achieved real economic gains
Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013 12:30 PM UTC 105Politics Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Socialism
New York homelessness sees unprecedented rise
While the mayor's net worth is up to $27 billion, 21,000 NYC children spent each night of January in a shelter
Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 4:38 PM UTCNews Homelessness, homeless shelters
In prison debate, race overshadows poverty
The way to stop filling up prisons is to end the War on Drugs, curb inequality and change our perspective on class
Friday, Mar 1, 2013 9:23 PM UTCPolitics Criminal Justice System
Study: Wealth gap between whites and blacks has ballooned
Research finds institutional practices and structures helped determine vast expansion in race wealth gap
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 5:12 PM UTCLife Race, disparity, Wealth, wealth gap
Southern poverty pimps
The “original sin” of the Southern political class is cheap, powerless labor
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 7:59 PM UTC 122Politics The South, Economics, Poverty
Introducing Africa to the OMG crowd
I balked when Instagram picked our feed. Now I realize it's an incredible way to reach the people we usually can't SLIDE SHOW
Monday, Feb 4, 2013 11:09 PM UTCTechnology slideshow, Instagram
Obamacare “glitch” may exclude poor from coverage
A problem unlikely to be fixed soon will see some families unable to get financial assistance from the government
Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 6:16 PM UTC 34News Obamacare, Affordable Care Act
Nearly half of Americans on edge of financial disaster
A new report finds a large percentage of U.S. citizens are one financial blow away from poverty
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 8:47 PM UTCNews Poverty, cfed, Financial Crisis
Restricting abortions will backfire on conservatives
If the GOP wants to reach low-income families, it'll make sure they have the resources to care for their kids
Friday, Jan 18, 2013 7:24 PM UTCPolitics The American Prospect, Abortion
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