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The Devil and Doug LaMalfa (xpost frm Congress) 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 1507
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Why We Need A 10.4 Million Jobs Plan 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 1495
US Wealth Inequality In One Chilling Video (Must See) 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 8475
Poverty among black children ‘should be considered a national crisis’ 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 5 8809
Senate Democrats Threaten Repeated Votes On Minimum Wage (xpost from Congress) 2 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 4 2280
CHARTS: The Amazing Wealth Surge For The Top 0.1 Percent (xpost frm Economy) 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 1 9417
It's Time To Put America First 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 6 1985
Opinion: Evaluating teachers based on student performance is 'punitive measure that demoralizes teac 1 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 3 1809
Walmart Admits that its Business Model Requires Employees to Depend on Food Stamps 2 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 5 2353
New Alabama food truck regulations prevent local churches from feeding the homeless 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 4 2136
Ryan Unsuited to Lead ‘Adult Conversation’ About Poverty 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 21 9666
Abby Huntsman wants to lead her own generation into poverty 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 7 2618
Five Myths About Panhandlers 2 xchrom Mar 2014 Mar 2014 1 8187
What It's Like to Panhandle 0 xchrom Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 1667
Reaganomics is a cancer, and we've reached its terminal stage 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 17 3133
Money in Hyping the Generational War Story 0 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 1488
Typical Minimum-Wage Earners Aren’t Poor, But They’re Not Quite Middle Class 0 antiquie Mar 2014 Mar 2014 1 2118
Reince Priebus: Paul Ryan demonized ‘inner cities’ to help them 1 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 0 1651
John Boehner's ready to pop an orange aneurysm over states "cheating" to preserve food stamps 3 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 8 2144
So Many Defense Budgets; So Little Clear Direction 0 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 0 1551
Rep. Paul Ryan misused data to show poverty programs don’t work, say economists he cited 5 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 15 2797
The War on Democracy: Art Pope and the Rich Bullies 0 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 3 1610
Fox News guest tells Hannity: ‘Overfed’ non-whites use food stamps as a ‘fat pill’ 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 1882

Poverty Continued...

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70,000 Fewer Poor Families Got Help With Rent Last Year Thanks To Budget Cuts 0 xchrom Feb 2014 Feb 2014 6 1808
How Govt. Hides the Poor: Formula for Measuring Poverty Dates to When a Loaf of Bread Cost 22 Cents 3 xchrom Feb 2014 Feb 2014 10 1811
Help For Families Who Can’t Afford Childcare Hits Decade Low 0 xchrom Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 1550
Hidden History: The War on Poverty at 50 0 xchrom Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1629
Frances Fox Piven | Extreme Poverty Has Been Used to Divide and Terrify Working People for Centuries 1 xchrom Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 1690
When a Kid's Bedroom Isn't a Room 2 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 12 3736
There's a Broad Consensus Among Activists Across the Country — Is Social Change Around the Corner? 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1693
How a tiny airport town near Seattle led the new movement against low wages (xpost frm LM) 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 5 1566
5 of the worst states to grow up poor 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 2015
Playing Politics with People’s Lives 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 1824
How Do We Make The Fears of the 1% Come True? 2 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1912
Meet the Billionaires Using Their Immense Wealth to Make Life Miserable for Ordinary Americans 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 1659
CBO report: Minimum wage hikes would kill 500,000 jobs but lift 900,000 out of poverty 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1645
How to Reduce the Deficit the Right Way 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 1780
America's "We" Problem 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1643
Report sheds light on poor working mothers in Texas 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 1771
What's for dinner? The farm bill has a big impact 2 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 2170
The Farm Bill Makes The Koch Brothers Richer While Destroying the Clean Water Act 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 2124
(CO) More El Paso County families eligible for special tax credit, experts say 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 1594
Social Darwinism and Fox Republicans 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 1665
Congress passes bill cutting farmer payments and SNAP benefits 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 1673
Fox’s Tucker Carlson: Poor people get ‘consumed with envy’ of the 1 percent 6 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 2288
Try #2: I need a new frame of reference (and your opinion) 8 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Feb 2014 10 4668
I need a new frame of reference (and your opinion) 25 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 21 5315
House passes bill cutting $8 billion from ‘food stamps’ program 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 4 1586
What a Country!: A Love Letter to America 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1673
New 5-year farm bill would cut subsidies while slashing food stamps benefits 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1646
Tech billionaire compares self to Jews under the Nazis, fears pogrom 3 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 2090
The new face of food stamps: working-age Americans 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 7 1744
Without the state, western democracies will remain a paradise for predators 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 5 1455

Poverty Continued...

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Working poor now majority of food stamp recipients — with college educated among fastest growing gro 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 11 1828
To Most People, the American Dream Is, in Fact, Just a Dream 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 6 1497
5 Right-Wing Myths About Raising the Minimum Wage, Debunked 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1860
The Human Cost of Income Inequality in America 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 1628
Slow Progress On Long-Term Unemployment Benefits As 1.6 Million Miss Out 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1490
Cloud-Dwellers: Class War Victors Get Higher on the Hog 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1518
Work in the US but under Conditions of a Developing Country 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1510
Pew survey shows sharp partisan divide on combating inequality 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1455
A question for DUers who frequent the Poverty forum 2 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 0 1824
8 Phony GOP Solutions for Poverty That Will Only Bring More Economic Pain 2 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 2062
The myth of the deserving rich 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1648
James Melton: The war on poverty is winnable, if we change tactics 3 LuckyTheDog Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1917
Pope Francis tells the business elite gathered in Davos to help those ‘still living in dire poverty 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1501
You’d be surprised at how poor the new ‘middle class’ is in the developing world (xpost from Labor) 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1365
LTTE: $12b for an aircraft carrier? Just imagine what that money could buy 3 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 6 2101
Another Shocking Wealth Grab by the Rich -- In Just One Year 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 13 1832
For the GOP, an Abyss Instead of Ideas 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 1678
Moms in ‘survival mode' as U.S. trails world on paid leave 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 1733
000,000,000.00 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 2673
Here's the Latest GOP Assault On Food Stamps: Requiring a Photo ID to Buy Food 3 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 4 1907
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