Poverty
Barber: Rising poverty endangers the whole country
September 3, 2020“You cannot have domestic tranquility…when nearly 50 percent of the country is poor and low wage.”
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Surviving at the crossroads of economic and racial intersectionality: Monique
August 25, 2020Struggling to live—on the job, in the neighborhood, and at city hall: The life of a worker in the Fight for $15 and a Union.
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New Poor People’s Campaign to McConnell: Pass the Heroes Act
August 4, 2020WASHINGTON - Taking their protests right to the key source of the problem, the New Poor People’s Campaign flooded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office with calls on August 3, demanding he let lawmakers pass the...
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Sanders joins Rev. Barber at New Poor People’s Campaign
February 27, 2020The crowd at packed North Carolina church hears Sanders say the poor are “invisible” to many presidential candidates.
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LeBron James challenges key capitalist narrative Americans have been taught to love
February 12, 2020What could be a more wonderful and meaningful dream than creating a society without poverty? What if that were the American Dream?
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