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Topic: Poverty (page 5)

A woman and her daughter shop for groceries using Food Stamps. (Getty/Andrew Burton)

Food stamp office cut by 95 percent

Igor Derysh
This New Jersey couple, whose families lost their homes to a foreclosure and short sale, told WBGO about their struggle to make ends meet looking for minimum-wage jobs while eluding law enforcement along the Route 38 corridor in Monmouth County. (Bob Hennelly)

In the real world of the working poor

Bob Hennelly
(Getty Images)

Christmas advice from the Dickens era

Robert Morrison - The Conversation
Jazmine Headley, center, joins attorney Brian Neary and her mother, Jacqueline Jenkins, outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J. (AP/Mike Catalini)

How we punish working mothers

Amanda Marcotte
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The Village Voice (villagevoice.com)

The Voice photographers captured change

Tamar Carroll, Joshua Meltzer - The Conversation
(AP)

Geography is link to life expectancy

Jessica Young - The Conversation
Young boys ride a bike through the Indian Hills East Colonia near Alamo, Texas. (AP/Eric Gay)

Youth poverty at the border

Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Marco Thimm-Kaiser - The Conversation
Malnourished children eat a meal at the Apanalaya Center in Mumbai, India, Oct. 9, 2012. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)

Hunger: A grave warning to the world

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
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Jeff Bezos; Bernie Sanders (AP/Salon)

Bernie's proposal targets Jeff Bezos

Nicole Karlis
Lakeith Stanfield in "Sorry to Bother You" (Annapurna Pictures)

Boots Riley takes on American capitalism

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
(Getty/icholakov)

The wages of poverty in America

Rajan Menon - TomDispatch.com
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal in "Blindspotting" (Courtesy of Lionsgate)

Salon Talks: "Blindspotting" stars

D. Watkins
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(Getty/mihailomilovanovic)

Trump ramps up war on the poor

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Seth Wenig)

Poor, white people more pessimistic

Alex Henderson - Alternet
(Getty/hayesphotography)

IRS debt collection is losing money

Bob Hennelly
Daniel Maclise's portrait of Charles Dickens

America looks like a Dickens novel

Sarah Bilston - The Conversation
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In this Wednesday, July 15, 2015 photo,Jock Riggins looks over the fresh fruits and vegetables on the Fresh Stop bus, a mobile market, in Eatonville, Fla. The Fresh Stop brings fresh fruits and vegetables to communities with no supermarkets. The nation’s largest grocery chains have built new supermarkets in only a fraction of the neighborhoods where they’re needed most, according to an analysis of federal food stamp data by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/John Raoux) (AP)

Economic divide grows

Beverly Gologorsky - TomDispatch.com
(AP/Stephen B. Morton)

Why are the poor so patriotic?

Chauncey DeVega
(Getty/IP Galanternik D.U.)

Poverty rising faster in suburbs

Scott W. Allard - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (AP)

"Opportunity zones" don't reduce poverty

Timothy Weaver - The Conversation
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Rev. William Barber; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP/Chuck Burton/Charles Kelly)

MLK's Poor People's Campaign: Revived

Paul Rosenberg
(Getty Images)

The painful truth of leaving prison

D. Watkins
(AP Photo, File)

Why MLK's message matters

Joshua F.J. Inwood - The Conversation
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., perhaps the most famous American who was counted among the Christian Left. (AP)

Remembering the real Martin Luther King

Rachel Leah
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