Truthout
Poverty
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Republicans Move to Finally Kick Elderly Disabled People Off Food Stamps
The GOP's new budget proposal finally does what we've all wanted - takes food away from the disabled.
The Truth About the Detroit Water Shutoffs
Unpaid bills are just a pretext to turn the city into a playground for the wealthy.
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Guilty of Being Poor
When a community issues arrest warrants for more offenses than it has residents, something's deeply wrong.
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Trickle-Down Economics and Trickle-Down Poverty
Trickle-down poverty is all-too-true at the level of families and households.
The Poor Get Prison: The Alarming Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty
This report provides a new understanding of the growing ways in which those in poverty are disproportionately targeted, marginalized, and prosecuted.
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Gaza Fishing Industry Held Hostage at Sea
Fisherman in Gaza are facing increasing restrictions that are threatening their livelihoods.
Civil Society Denounces World Bank’s Conference on Land and Poverty
Farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and other civil society organizations, under the umbrella of Our Land Our Business, call World Bank's annual Conference on Land and Poverty a …
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Privatizing Public Housing: The “Genocide of Poor People“
Tenants' groups are raising red flags over feds newest low-income housing plan.
What Trickle-Down Economics Has Done to the US: The Rich Get All the Money
Wealth is being redistributed in the US from the poor and the middle class to the rich.
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Beware the Best of Times
The UN, large corporations and NGOs want us to believe poverty has been halved in the last 15 years. Are their claims justified?