Photo: Wisconsin Poor People's Campaign
Hardship is a lot more widespread in the Badger State than the official numbers would have you believe. A few weeks before the election, a…
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Photo: Poor People's Campaign Virginia
On a recent night in Richmond, speaker after speaker came forward to talk about the multidimensional reality of poverty. The setting was a hearing held…
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Just how many Americans are poor? The Trump administration wants you to believe that just 3 percent of the U.S. population is poor. The Council…
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It’s been a busy several weeks on the bad news beat. A white Yale grad student called the police on fellow grad student Lolade Siyonbola…
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Most of the world recognizes May 1 — May Day — as International Workers’ Day. Here in one of the few countries that doesn’t, it’s…
This 2018 audit of poverty, systemic racism, militarism, and environmental devastation in the United States was co-edited by me at the Institute for Policy Studies…