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Suck It Up, Proles 4 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 11 5160
Cutting Pentagon pork could fund free childcare in the US 2 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 6 3968
City Council, please seriously address Philly’s LGBT homeless youth problem 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 3451
Most 2016 GOP Presidential Candidates Would Push Seniors Into Poverty By Cutting Social Security 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 5 3156
How an Apartment Tower in Atlanta Is Makes Life a Living Hell for Its Poor Residents 1 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 9 4245
How can cities successfully enforce a higher minimum wage? 1 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2856
Racialized Poverty in America has Nearly Doubled in 21st Century 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 3002
Game of Groans: How focus on Trump Taunts hides GOP war on Middle Class, Workers 1 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 5 3211
I work at the US Senate. I shouldn’t have to dance at strip clubs to feed my son 8 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 34 6107
Public cos. to report pay gap between CEOs, employees 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2366
Pell grants to bring college back to prison: US is 'a nation of second chances' 2 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 4161
"Welfare": differing connotations? 3 YoungDemCA Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 3635
CEO pay at US’s largest companies up 54% since recovery began in 2009 13 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jul 2015 20 8363
You’re probably going to be poor 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 7 2785
New Orleans Katrina Pain Index at Ten: Who Was Left Behind 1 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 3739
Sandy Irving: Invest in people, not military jets 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 2 2219
Republicans can’t stop comparing food stamp recipients to wild animals on Facebook 2 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 4494
Debunking the Debased Gospel of Wealth: "1% Deserve Loot Plus Our Thanks" 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 2583
Here’s how homeless kids and families are trying to survive in one of America’s richest cities 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 3372
80 percent of girls in juvenile detention have been sexually or physically abused: study 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 4208
U.S. Wealth Concentration: The Most Accurate Current Estimates 5 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 14 3509
Not just Detroit: residents of nearby Michigan city face $11,000 water bills 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 2657
The Real Debt Ceiling 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 2504
Uh, no. The fire and brimstone people aren’t going to start feeding and clothing the poor. 3 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 3153
Number of US homeowners reaches 20-year low 8 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 4615
Our 18th Century Bill of Rights Needs Revising 0 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 5 2478
Punishing the poor: Michigan adopts law to take away families’ food assistance if kids miss school 6 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 9 3969
The True Cost of America’s Ongoing Wars: Sebastian Junger, Spencer Ackerman et al. 0 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 7 2814
The real 47 percent: GOP candidate with a Ferrari pays no federal income taxes for third year 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 May 2015 3 2988
Tax Fairness Could Mean More Resources 3 unhappycamper Feb 2015 May 2015 4 3414

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40 years after Vietnam: Celebrating the End of One War, and Witnessing the Start of a New One Here a 0 unhappycamper May 2015 May 2015 3 2742
GOP Assault on Social Security Could be 'Death Sentence' for Nation's Disabled 7 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Apr 2015 38 5004
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 appalachiablue Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2706
Report: 1 in 4 Michigan Kids Now Lives in Poverty 0 project_bluebook Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 3341
Wake groups say NC grades point to problems of segregated, high-poverty schools 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2575
Growing inequality is disastrous but not inevitable 1 no more banksters Oct 2014 Feb 2015 3 3075
College Completion Gap Between Rich and Poor Has Doubled: Study 2 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 2893
This Long-Lost Constitutional Clause Could Save the Right to Vote 11 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Feb 2015 20 8542
‘It’s ridiculous!’ Conservative mother fumes over school assignment claiming GOP is anti-welfare 6 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 3958
Right-to-work laws are union-hating Republican’s weapon of choice 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 2346
South Dakota GOP wants to erase state’s new minimum wage law 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 2405
More Evidence "Centrist" Solutions Can't Save Us 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 2413
American Heresy: Why I Don’t Give a Good Goddamn Who Wins the Super Bowl 6 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 4501
U.N. officials tour Detroit to assess human rights impact of water shutoffs 3 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Jan 2015 2 3003
Low-income renters in Anchorage bitten by another problem: Bedbugs 4 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Dec 2014 0 3749
More MIC Welfare Means Less For We The People 4 unhappycamper Dec 2014 Dec 2014 4 3742
Like Taking Candy From A Baby 2 unhappycamper Dec 2014 Dec 2014 10 10042
Why We Are Poor 1 unhappycamper Dec 2014 Dec 2014 10 2593
Surprise: Since Billionaires caused Crash of 2009, Their Numbers have Doubled 1 unhappycamper Nov 2014 Nov 2014 6 2589
Will growing gap between rich and poor influence midterm elections? 1 unhappycamper Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 2581
The Zombie System: How Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 2595
Low-wage employers are the real ‘welfare queens’ 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 5 2252
Dick Cheney: A Most Expensive Man 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 10 3129
Top 1% ‘own half global wealth’ 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 11 2435
Does Rising Inequality Make a Democracy More Warlike? 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 2502
Army’s Message At AUSA: Don’t Cut ‘Foundational Force’ 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 2368
Dear Democrats: Please All and You'll Please None 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 2228
When 57% Of All Discretionary Funding Ain't Enough 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 2322
4 Reasons You Should Be Taking America's Inequality Very Personally 4 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 11 3484
The Three Million Forgotten Victims of the Great Recession 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 8 2177

Poverty Continued...

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Did Wal-Mart just move us closer to single-payer health care? 5 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 3281
Why the Right Is So Freaked Out about the Inconvenient Truths of Actual U.S. History 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 4 2673
Girl, 13, advocate for homeless charity 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 2128
Rosanne Greco: One Flew Over the F-35 Cuckoo Nest 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1978
Water is the new oil: How corporations took over a basic human right 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 2563
Why voters don’t care more about income inequality 5 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 4 3319
We Need To Talk. 19 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 38 6554
The Surprising Reason that Crushing Economic Inequality Isn't More of Election Issue 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 4 2353
Michigan's child-care system is an utter disgrace — and it’s only getting worse 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 2469
$22 Billion to Fight ISIL in same Year Congress cut $8.7 bn in Food Stamps (xpost from Congress) 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 5 2511
Paul Krugman dismantles notion that the 1 percent’s lack of humility is the real problem 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 6 2356
BOHICA 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 2236
Poverty rate posts 1st notable drop since '06; Latinos show big strides 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2496
Should U.S. bolster its defense budget? 5 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 3155
US, Iraq have same child homicide rate – UNICEF 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 9 2333
Bill Maher: ‘White America needs to stop putting forth this toxic idea that racism is over’ 2 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2893
Boehner messes up Paul Ryan’s image rehab: Attacks unemployed as lazy and unmotivated 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 9 2291
Colombia Is Taking On Its Billionaires. Why Can't We? 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2316
Who Gets Left Holding the Bag? 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 5 2148
Who's getting rich off the stock market? 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2216
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