Poverty
Workers, AFL-CIO, Democrats open legislative push for $15 minimum wage
February 8, 2019Workers descended on Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers to raise the wage. Democrats liked what they heard; Republicans didn’t.
Read moreTrump’s holiday ‘gift’ to the needy: No more Medicaid or food stamps
December 21, 2018Ebenezer Scrooge has met his match in Donald Trump.
Read more‘Shoplifters’: New Japanese feature film shows how people survive
December 12, 2018Although it seems to roll out modestly as a simple tale of marginal people, its conclusion will force you to rethink central tenets of how individuals relate.
Read moreA day in the life of an unemployed New Yorker
October 31, 2018I am a musician, teacher, and writer, a skilled worker with skills not highly valued by a vulture market. In our society, racist, sexist, ableist, ageist, and other-ist capitalists make decisions amongst themselves about everybody else....
Read moreNobody in America should be poor, period
October 17, 2018Having a job is not necessarily an antidote to poverty.
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