Hunger
This week in history: The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive
May 9, 2016The food drive started in October 1991 as a pilot program, the initial drive taking place in ten cities across the country.
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Low-ball to snowball: Underestimating poverty among older Americans
April 26, 2016Instead of a life lived in dignity, many senior citizens have to scrimp, accept charitable hand-outs, and decide whether to pay for medicine or go hungry.
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Walmart workers begin Thanksgiving and Black Friday strikes with fasting
November 24, 2015Angry about having to go to food pantries to feed their families, Walmart workers across the country are fasting during the days leading up to Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
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Immigration: Trump trumps the truth
August 18, 2015Trump's purpose is demagogic, to toss red meat to the most extreme reactionary sections of the Republican Party base while spreading the poison of xenophobic racism around.
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U.S. policy driving the children north
July 21, 2014The poverty and suffering of Guatemalans, and especially indigenous Guatemalans, is rooted in long term U.S. policy in the region.
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