Poverty
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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Divest from Pentagon, invest in people
April 25, 2016On Tax Day, protesters were staging a press conference with the latest attempt at temporary housing for the homeless.
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No country for old people
March 16, 2016Is there a human right to age in dignity? Some countries think so. Unfortunately, ours isn't one of them.
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African-American voters give Clinton a landslide win in South Carolina
February 28, 2016"In rural areas many poor and minority residents have been neglected for decades and are struggling against nearly impossible odds trying to pull themselves out of poverty."
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Flint’s water crisis and the GOP’s class war
January 26, 2016Why did Flint suffer a water catastrophe that now requires that children be treated as if they had been poisoned?
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