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Poverty
Tennessee Wants to Use Funding Meant for Poor Families to Kick People Off Medicaid
The Tennessee legislature is finalizing legislation that would add work requirements to the state's Medicaid program.
Proposed Cuts to Civil Legal Services Will Deny Courtroom Justice to the Poor
Will Congress defy Trump and fund equal justice for the poor?
Poor People’s Campaign Launches Nationwide Organizing Effort to Fight Poverty
Fifty years later, a new Poor People's Campaign connects religious faith to social justice.
More Than a Year in, Jeff Sessions Continues to Wage an Unjust War on Drugs and Poverty
Sessions remains adamant about turning back the clock.
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Caught Her Red-Handed
William Rivers Pitt | Trump’s $4.4 Trillion Butcher’s Bill
We live in an age of elaborate cruelty.
How the Global 1 Percent Rips Off the World
An Oxfam report documents how global inequality has worsened
Four Ways Trump and GOP Have Launched an All-Out Assault on the US’s Poorest
Republican policies seek to punish poor Americans.
Why People Love “Assistance to the Poor” but Hate “Welfare”
What's the difference between “welfare” and “assistance”?
To Fully Understand Inequality in the US, Look Outside of the Cities
Why are pockets of the country still plagued by extreme poverty?