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Poverty should not make a good life impossible
While American society is especially good among wealthy countries at producing poverty, it is especially bad at making the ...
Number of Long Island seniors in poverty increased up to 78 percent in past decade: study
Researchers found that 14,600 of Nassau County seniors reported being in poverty in 2022 — an increase of 78% from 2012, ...
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It’s Called Poverty, Y’all
By Yasmin Tarver In his farewell address, President Joe Biden delivered a stark warning about the dangerous power of the ...
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America’s Abandonment of the Poor
Dominating the book is an image of institutional space, beige, concrete, and lightless: the warehouse, the hospital, the ...
Does Oklahoma have enough economic freedom to lift people out of poverty? | Opinion
Oklahomans should look askance at anything that impedes their freedom to create and build their own businesses, including ...
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How we measure poverty matters — and we can do better
He is the author of “Within Our Means,” a biweekly newsletter on ending poverty in America. How many people are living in poverty in America? It depends on whom you ask. If it’s the US ...
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A tale of two Americas
A few weeks before his death in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke about the “other America” to a union group in New York. In his remarks, he condemned the structural nature of poverty ...
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Clyburn ready to elevate rural poverty issues on Appropriations
Upon his return to the House Appropriations Committee after an 18-year hiatus, Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., has one central ...
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One reason it’s harder to escape poverty in America
He is the author of “Within Our Means,” a biweekly newsletter on ending poverty in America. The classic promise of the American dream is that no matter where you grew up, no matter how poor ...