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This Is What We Are Up Against 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 7 1905
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Rafael Cruz: The ‘average Black’ doesn’t understand why the minimum wage is bad 4 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2328
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The right’s food stamp embarrassment: A history lesson for the haters 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 2077
The right’s jobs debacle: Here’s how to bring unemployment down to zero 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 6 1775
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Only the Little People Will Suffer: Sanctioning the New Cold War 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1919
A Rising Tide Only Lifts All Boats When Everyone Has a Boat 5 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 16 2893
GOP Policy: Kill the Poor 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Aug 2014 2 2166
“I don’t believe he is sincere”: Paul Ryan’s challenger has a message to send 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 6 2138
The Black Hole That Ate Everything 6 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 9 2436
Blame poverty, not race, say Ferguson’s white minority 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 2122
When Dick Cheney Swatted an "Annoying Mosquito" Named Paul Ryan 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 2050
Forbes: Athletes paying expensive divorce settlements is bigger problem than domestic violence 3 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 2541

Poverty Continued...

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No City for Poor Men 5 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 2600
Proposition 1: How to Swindle the Middle Class 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 3 2286
Many People Cannot Boycott Corporate Tax Dodgers Like Walgreen's 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 1974
Finance in America: Promoting Inequality and Waste 1 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1823
Where is Childhood Homelessness Getting Worse? 18 littlemissmartypants Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 4252
Things my Grandmother used to say about money 2 ymetca Jul 2014 Jul 2014 7 2567
San Francisco cracks down on homeless: Sleep in train station, go to jail 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1700
NC takes five kids from pregnant, homeless mom who sought home for them on Craigslist 2 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 2294
Imagine What We Could Buy If We Didn't Have to Spend Billions on Police Brutality Cases 1 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1866
Bombshell Study: America's Wealthy Even More Obscenely Rich Than Anybody Thought 1 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 2104
You Know Your Country Sucks When You Look Wistfully Back at Stalin 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 1776
The Most Expensive Warplane in American History Is Too Dangerous to Fly and Just Caught Fire (Again) 4 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 2622
Predatory Capitalism and the System's Denial in the Face of Truth 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1776
Sixty Five Million Left out of July 4 Celebration 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1849
Norfolk (VA) homeless shelter suspends programs 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1883
Not War on Poverty but War on the Poor: Washington’s Real Foreign Policy Aims 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 1785
Generational poverty the exception, not the rule 2 theHandpuppet Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 2048
U.S. mayors tackle the income gap: Goar 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1714
(CO) Collins' answer to homelessness: Ship them out and 'make them work' 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 2534
(CA) Homelessness on rise in beach areas 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1910
Blue Planet et al. Appeal to UN over Detroit Water cut-off to Thousands 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1819
Groups Appeal to UN for 'Humanity' as Detroit Shuts Off Water to Thousands 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1894
AZ schools chief outs himself as anonymous Internet troll who calls poor people ‘lazy pigs’ 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 7 2266
Doing for the Poor and Doing to the Poor 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1864
The homeless people’s handwritten signs that are being turned into fonts 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1900
The New Ground-Based Defense Missiles Cost $40 Billion That We Could Use For A Lot of Other Things. 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1628
IMF cuts U.S. growth outlook, says full employment years off 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1744
The Three Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Poverty 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 2028
Let’s try out conservative economic theories on rich people! 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 2005
Just when you thought sequestration was working..... 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1963

Poverty Continued...

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After Piketty, is the Study of Economics the Study of Rising Inequality? 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1577
Risk of depression is nearly twice as high for unemployed Americans 5 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 5 2738
No shortage of info in Detroit bankruptcy 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1748
How Government "Contracting Out" Drives Up Costs, Pushes Down Workers 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1737
What Would Afghan Spending Buy at Home? 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1605
Here's a Little Perspective for You 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1979
Climate Change, Economic Inequality Are One Debate, says Sen. Warren 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1777
9 Questions about the 1%, the Unemployed and why the one produces the Other 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1861
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1661
What has meritocracy to do with merit? 3 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 2213
Poverty? Really? 0 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 8 2567
I Love New York: The Haves and the Have-nots 0 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 2 1862
The US jet fighter that can do it all—maybe (xpost from NSD) 3 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 3 1918
Rep. Paul Ryan targets Poor as his “Signature Issue”, and I do Mean Targets (Cartoon) 0 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 8 2042
Gov. Fallin signs bill curbing minimum-wage increases in Oklah 3 yesphan Apr 2014 May 2014 1 2035
25% of Colorado foster kids on psychotropic 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 May 2014 4 1945
Bryan Fischer tells poor people: ‘Kiss the ground’ beneath the richest 1 percent 6 unhappycamper Apr 2014 May 2014 3 2760
Inside San Jose's Tent City 0 gejohnston May 2014 May 2014 2 2015
Homeless man straps GoPro camera to his chest to film his life in tech-heavy San Francisco 5 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 3 2291
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