This is not the first time the media has portrayed the real life of the working poor and just how little their wages purchases. But it’s important to hear these stories, not so that we feel bad,
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. But what
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 saved millions of people
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 an accident so he can cash in on his insurance pla
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! An unprecedente
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 a row. The news
One of the mantras for educational policy is that better schools allow poor children to succeed. This is right at the core of the charter school ideology. And since those public schools fail to delive
When people can’t understand why people would be communists even after the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact and thus damn them for turning a blind eye to the horrors of Stalinism, I like to retort that I