Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012 5:25 PM UTC
No soda for food stamps?
Influential food writer Mark Bittman thinks SNAP beneficiaries should be cut off from sugary drinks
Influential food writer Mark Bittman thinks SNAP beneficiaries should be cut off from sugary drinks
Rates in cities are down for the first time in decades, but there's a worrisome catch
Forget the budget crisis hysteria. Obama has sterner challenges in child poverty, health care and global warming
Tonight's lottery is up to $500 million. Guess whose money is going into the pot?
Irish Catholics peddling nonsense about "dependency on government" need to read a new history of the Great Famine
NGO report finds gap between rich and poor has grown worldwide, hampering poverty eradication
Only 1 percent of program expenditures are lost to fraud or abuse
So why aren't the five most important issues even being discussed in Election 2012?
Coalition for the Homeless blames Mayor Michael Bloomberg's policies for 20,000 children sleeping in shelters
Data released today suggests the economy may have bottomed out, while inequality has risen again
Suburbs, slums and city centers could grow by more than a million square kilometers -- much of it home to wildlife
Romney is one of myriad conservatives who believe that our country's poor are lazy -- and should be punished
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