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Topic: Poverty

A Cuban farmer tills his field by hand, March 2026. (Radio Angulo)

US sanctions fuel hunger in Cuba

Medea Benjamin
Thanksgiving holiday pie (Getty images/kajakiki)

MAGA's war on poor hurts everyone

Kirk Swearingen
President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

How poverty is fueling Trumpism

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Mark Lennihan)

Amazon blows off its poorest shoppers

Cara Michelle Smith
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's "free" money will cost MAGA

Chauncey DeVega
Woman stressed out with her finances (Getty Images/Happy Kikky)

Telling us to "save more" isn't working

Sara Sternberg Greene
A man counts his coins on a tabletop. (Getty Images/MichaelDeLeon)

Why budgeting isn't a fix for poverty

Dana Miranda
Pro-abortion rights demonstrators rally in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 15, 2024. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Abortion restrictions harm mental health

Brad Greenwood, Gordon Burtch, Michaela R. Anderson - The Conversation
Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Reagan racialized poverty like no other

Chauncey DeVega
Members shop at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn. Formed in 1973, the Coop is one of the oldest and largest food cooperatives in America. PSFC has more than 15,500 members, most of whom work once every four weeks in exchange for a 20 – 40% savings on groceries. Only members may shop at the PSFC. (James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)

"Middle class" is the "minimum standard"

Chauncey DeVega
Child pouring water on himself on a hot day (Getty Images/AlesVeluscek)

Climate change damages children's brains

Matthew Rozsa
Close-up of wheats in a field during harvest (Ozgun Tiran/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Russia suspends Black Sea grain deal

Joy Saha
Waterfall in Green Forest (Getty Images/Constantine Johnny)

Want to protect nature? Pay people

Matthew Rozsa
People attend a rally to protest the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man who was choked to death on the subway, May 5, 2023, in Washington Square Park, New York City, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

The politics of disposability

Chauncey DeVega
Rachel Brosnahan (Miriam 'Midge' Maisel) and Alex Borstein (Susie Myerson) in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Christopher Saunders/Prime Video)

On "Mrs. Maisel," Midge made Susie

Alison Stine
Rush hour with taxis, bicyclists and people (Getty Images/Marco_Piunti)

Driving as a form of class privilege

Matthew Rozsa
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The electric car savings gap

Lylla Younes - Grist
Toddler and American soldier eating lunch together (Getty Images/MivPiv)

In our bloated military, some go hungry

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
Riot police monitor protesters near a CVS pharmacy that was looted and burned by rioters on Monday after the funeral of Freddie Gray, on April 29, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Why I say we should defund the police

D. Watkins
Netters try to catch sardines at the Warner beach, south of Durban on June 20, 2021. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)

The fishers marginalized since apartheid

Kathleen Auld, Loretta Feris - The Conversation
Starbucks workers strike outside a Starbucks coffee shop on November 17, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

How Democrats can build a 2024 blowout

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Plastic Pollution in the Ocean (Getty Images/Yunaidi Joepoet)

Climate change inequity: Who pays?

Bethany Tietjen - The Conversation
Photo of a person giving money to a beggar (Getty Images/ljubaphoto)

A panhandling study's unsettling finding

Matthew Rozsa
A homeless man sleeps under an American Flag blanket on a park bench. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Capitalism is bad for your health: study

Matthew Rozsa
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