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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) takes questions during a town hall meeting at the LeFrak City Queens Library on October 3, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City. The event focused on her A Just Society legislation, which targets poverty, affordable housing, and access to federal benefits. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

"This is a moral wrong"

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
In this June 2014 photo provided by Transition House, a homeless shelter in Santa Barbara, Calif., Melody, 4, makes a paper whale after listening to a story about whales during the Transition House’s Technology and Literacy for Children story time. A new report released Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, by the National Center on Family Homelessness says that one fifth of America's homeless children are in California. (AP Photo/Transition House, Kimberly Kavish) (AP)

Child poverty in the age of Trump

Rajan Menon - TomDispatch.com
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Childhood lead poisoning

Claudia Lopez-Lloreda - Massive Science
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Getty/Jim Watson)

Ginsburg on Trump: "He's not a lawyer"

Sky Palma - Raw Story
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A homeless individual sleeps in a subway station in New York (Richard Levine/Corbis via Getty Images)

How Bloomberg immiserated New York

Bob Hennelly
(Cynthia R Matonhodze/Campaign for Female Education)

Climate change's feminist solution

Nicole Karlis
In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

How America fails to feed its aging

Laura Ungar, Trudy Lieberman - KFF Health News
Newark remains a city of widespread urban blight and neglect. (Bob Hennelly)

The economics of racist neglect

Bob Hennelly
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Supporters of Proposition 10, in favor of rent control and building more affordable housing, listen to labor and civic leaders speak during a press conference on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif. (Steve Yeater/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation)

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Dangers of unconstitutional poll taxes

Gabriella Novello - WhoWhatWhy
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GOP Medicaid refusal caused death

Igor Derysh
(AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

Trump rule: Many could lose food stamps

Igor Derysh
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Travis Stanley, who said he has been homeless for three months and is a U.S. Navy veteran, sits on donated bedding, where he normally sleeps, beneath an overpass on June 5, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty/Mario Tama)

Trump's next target: Homeless people

Heather Digby Parton
An abandoned home stands behind a padlocked gate April 29, 2008 in Stockton, California. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Does guaranteed income fix inequality?

Lauren Schiller
In this May 2, 2019, photo homeless people gather on the sidewalk at an encampment in Phoenix. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

Many poor people may lose benefits

Igor Derysh
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Plight of hoop stars who don’t go pro

D. Watkins
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Old Rusty Car (Getty Images/ethanfink)

Growing up poor, with shaming looks

Dave Patterson
Ben Shapiro (Getty/Mark Ralston)

How to have an argument with Ben Shapiro

Matthew Rozsa
FILE - In this June 17, 2014, file photo, a shopper looks at an item in the dairy section of a Kroger grocery store in Richardson, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Shutdown hardship for SNAP recipients

Orgul Demet Ozturk, Chad Cotti, John Gordanier - The Conversation
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Could a UBI solve post-coal poverty?

Lovey Cooper, Liz Price - 100 Days In Appalachia
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"Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive" by Stephanie Land (Hachette Books/Nicol Biesek)

"There's no way to save up money"

Erin Keane
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)

Finding light in the struggle on MLK Day

Joel Edward Goza
In this Monday, March 27, 2017 photo Sunny Larson, left, and Zak McCutcheon pick produce while gathering provisions to take home at the Augusta Food Bank in Augusta, Maine. Republican Gov. Paul LePage says his call to ban the use of food stamps for soda and candy is backed by science and a desire to reduce obesity and diabetes in the nation's oldest state. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

America has no social safety net

Jamila Michener - The Conversation
Julie Burr's Gofundme page (gofundme.com/shutdown-story)

Fed employees turn to crowdfunding

Rachel Leah
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