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Topic: Poverty (page 3)

Poet Nikki Giovanni who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee (Mireya Acierto/WireImage)

Black poets give a voice to Affrilachia

Amy M. Alvarez, Jameka Hartley - The Conversation
Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Oxford University Press)

Welfare fraud is actually rare

Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock
Not far from Burlington City’s picturesque downtown industrial waste lingers along the Delaware River coast. (Bob Hennelly)

N.J. city has thoughts for Jill Biden

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Reverend William Barber II (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Democrats who refused $15 will pay

Bob Hennelly
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill June 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

W.Va. voters blast Manchin on $15 wage

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Kyrsten Sinema (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democrats splinter over fight for $15

Molly Wilcox
Some billionaires having a good time, and the common folk affected by the pandemic (Getty Images/Salon)

Poverty surging, but rich got richer

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Getty Images/Salon)

America: A failed state

Bob Hennelly
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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can we get back to real politics yet?

David Masciotra
Participants hold signs during the Senate Democrats' rally against Medicaid cuts in front of the U.S. Capitol (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trump failed to fulfill Medicaid goals

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Election office puts mail in ballots into a container (George Frey/Getty Images)

PA's vote-by-mail law doesn't help poor

Jonathan Lai, Samantha Melamed, Michaelle Bond - ProPublica
Jeff Bezos, Tom Steyer and Bill Gates (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Billionaire wealth hits new record high

Igor Derysh
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The rise of Christian Nationalism

Liz Theoharis - TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump and Republican States (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's America: Not great again

Bob Cesca
Donald Trump with thumbs up in front of elderly white congregation in church (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump is driving seniors into poverty

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Eviction Notice On Door (Getty Images)

The pandemic eviction crisis

Bob Hennelly
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US President Donald Trump | Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (Getty Images/Salon)

Rev. William Barber: America's awakening

Chauncey DeVega
People Line Up For Unemployment Applications During COVID-19 Crisis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

US likely to turn left as economy tanks

Matthew Rozsa
Homeless women wearing masks sit on a hand cart in Mumbai, India (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Many poor Indians see their lot worsen

Moushumi Roy, Tirth Bhatta
Maryar has three children from a husband who left her about a year ago to return to Darfur. She lives in the shack with another elder relative and her children. (Giles Clarke/UNOCHA via Getty Images)

The pandemic is causing extreme poverty

Matthew Rozsa
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This Is All I Got by Lauren Sandler (Photos provided by publicist/Random House)

When Americans lost their empathy

Nicole Karlis

COVID & the hunger industrial complex

Andrew Fisher - MIT Press Reader
Participants in the "Occupy Wall Street" (Getty/Emmanuel Dunand)

Inequality and the coronavirus

Liz Theoharis - TomDispatch.com
I Don't Want To Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux (Stephen Duarte/Simon & Schuster)

The case to abolish student debt

Nicole Karlis
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