One of the reasons Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed hit home so hard upon its publication in 2001 is that it came at a moment when both the Democratic and Republican parties had abandoned to the poor. The only time the poor got any attention...
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Mount Hope, West Virginia. Photo by Tim Kiser CC BY-SA 3.0 US https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons One of the most important anti-poverty initiatives in decades has expired. Although the boosted.
NASHVILLE, : US President Bill Clinton clinches his fist during a 27 October speech on welfare reform at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The US general election is.
It's getting to the point where it's hard to feel bad for people who get COVID. After all, the vaccines are more than readily available anywhere in the country. But it's also easy to focus on the idiots out there who are refusing to get...
Low wage workers take part in a protest organized by the Coalition for a Real Minimum Wage outside the offices of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, May 30, 2013. REUTERS/Mike.
So much of the debate over college loan forgiveness revolves around narratives of upper middle class kids being forgiven $200,000 because they majored in underwater dance or some such thing..
Since this is a topic we are already discussing today, I think another post is not too much. The reality is that a broken housing market combined with record income inequality has created a situation that requires bold solutions. Gianpaolo Baiocchi and H. Jacob Carlson...
Give this to the Republicans--they state they hate the working class and then they follow through on that hatred. After an ambitious expansion of the safety net in the spring.
This little 3 minute cartoon from 1916 is a harsh look at poverty in the early twentieth century, focusing on a guy so hungry that he tries to get in.
This photo essay of hunger in New York is a powerful document to what this all has really meant for the poor. I may not be living my best life right now and sure, it sucks. But for millions of Americans, this has tipped the...
The federal government's actions in giving people money in the wake of the COVID-19 shutdowns worked great and kept people out of poverty. So we'd better not do that again!.
2018: What a year: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for example, reported in November that life expectancy for the average American ticked downward for the third year in.