Topic: poor people

Rev. Dr. William Barber (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

America's "sleeping giant" awakens

Bob Hennelly
(Getty/mihailomilovanovic)

Trump ramps up war on the poor

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Stephen B. Morton)

Why are the poor so patriotic?

Chauncey DeVega
Rev. William Barber; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP/Chuck Burton/Charles Kelly)

MLK's Poor People's Campaign: Revived

Paul Rosenberg
President Donald Trump speaks in the Cabinet Room (AP/Susan Walsh)

trump: no money, no job

Michael Glassman
Paul Ryan (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Salon)

Why Republicans hate the poor

Chauncey DeVega
(Reuters/Jim Urquhart)

America's worst corporate ogre

Dan Zegart, Kevin Grandia
Paul Ryan (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Paul Ryan's newest deceit

Mildred Rein

How we shame the poor in 2014

Charles R. Davis
David Brat (AP/Steve Helber)

GOP's despicable class war

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
Mark Pryor, Paul Ryan (Reuters/Yuri Gripas/AP/Susan Walsh/Photo collage by Salon)

Start a super PAC for the poor

Blake Zeff
Paul Ryan (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Paul Ryan’s existential drama

Simon Maloy
(AP/John Shearer)

Millennials: The deadly myth

Tim Donovan
Paul Ryan (AP/Eric Gay)

Paul Ryan's poverty trap

Joan Walsh
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-58176p1.html'>Keith Lamond</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-763222p1.html'>photowings</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

DC cheers as the hungry suffer

Blake Zeff

Prachi Gupta
Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Ed Reinke)

GOP peddles more poverty lies

Joan Walsh
Jack Kingston (AP/Alex Brandon)

Republican's awful school idea

Jim Newell
Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, Newt Gingrich (Reuters/Joe Mitchell/Kevin Lamarque/AP/Michael Conroy)

GOP scorns the poor -- again

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig