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
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 America
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
Tennessee Republicans seem nice: Nashville Public Radio reported over the weekend that the Tennessee legislature is finalizing legislation that would add work requirements to the state’s Medicaid pr
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
As another Mother’s Day winds down, here’s a reminder that the real way we treat our mothers is allowing poor mothers to die in childbirth, forcing them to live in poverty, don’t pro
You want to read Christopher Jencks’ review of a new book on the extreme poor in America. It’s a serious indictment of federal policy in dealing with the poorest of the poor, part of a muc
New Mexico has a new tourism campaign that is, um, somewhat more successful than the laughable tourism campaign disaster of my state of Rhode Island. But of course New Mexico has become a playground f