Allen West tells conservatives to visit black neighborhoods in D.C.
The former congressman wants a mostly elderly and white crowd to witness the "decimation" firsthand
Friday, Jun 14, 2013 4:16 PM UTC 44Politics Allen West, African Americans
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New report reveals LGBT “poverty gap”
Contrary to dominant media narratives about gay affluence, data shows a vastly different economic reality
Monday, Jun 3, 2013 6:01 PM UTCLife LGBT Rights, LGBT, LGBTQ
New data shows school “reformers” are full of it
Poor schools underperform largely because of economic forces, not because teachers have it too easy
Monday, Jun 3, 2013 4:30 PM UTC 301Politics Michelle Rhee, Education
Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich”
From New York's crack epidemic to Stockton's Great Depression, a look at the finest docs YouTube has to offer VIDEO
Sunday, Jun 2, 2013 1:00 PM UTCBusiness Video, The I Files
Report: 1 in 5 public schools classified as “high-poverty”
The number of public schools serving majority low-income students is up 60 percent since 2000
Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:48 PM UTCLife Poverty, Education
Worst job in Venezuela: Succeeding Hugo Chavez
Newly elected Nicolas Maduro lacks his predecessor's charisma, mandate and popularity. And problems are mounting
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 7:00 PM UTCElections Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Socialism
Not all San Francisco Giants workers basking in victory
While the championship team's value has soared, concession workers making $11,000 haven't gotten a raise in 4 years
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:00 PM UTCBusiness San Francisco Giants
Report: Nearly a quarter of all Americans struggle to afford food
The report notes deprivation in the U.S. is "closer to that in Indonesia or Greece rather than Britain or Canada"
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:29 PM UTC 81Life Poverty, hunger, world hunger
David Vitter’s hypocritical, punitive, horrible new amendment
Senator's new measure denies food stamps for life to certain classes of ex-convicts (solicitation not included)
Friday, May 24, 2013 4:16 PM UTC 89Business David Vitter, Farm Bill
The new geography of poverty
A recent analysis of census data reveals that suburban poverty is growing faster than ever
Monday, May 20, 2013 5:01 PM UTCLife suburbs, suburbia, poor, Poverty
Barack Obama: Incidental black man?
The president gets personal at Morehouse College, as hard questions loom for black men and his presidency
Monday, May 20, 2013 4:58 PM UTC 48Politics Black, Race
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
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
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