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Stupidest Budget Cuts Ever – or, Why Cutting Contraception Is Not Conservative
The sequester's 86 million dollars in cuts to family planning is especially stupid when we already have the tools to make most unintended pregnancy and abortion obsolete.
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Struggling to Keep Hope Alive in Cairo’s City of the Dead
Sarah Lazare reports from Cairo's City of the Dead, an ancient cemetery inhabited by people too poor to pay rent.
Access to Health Care, Basic Necessities a Matter of Life or Debt
Medical debt and bankruptcy are uniquely American experiences among wealthy nations.
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Prison Profiteers Are Neo-Slaveholders and Solitary Is Their Weapon of Choice
Chris Hedges speaks with two longtime prisoner advocates about the shame of America's gulags.
Failed “Welfare” Programs and the Web of Poverty
The policies that create paradigms of poverty are often remote and administered with a hidden hand.
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“The Poor Are Too Free?:" Unlocking the Middle-Class Code
The "idealized middle-class fantasy ignores that behind the weightless freedom often lurked the life-long burden of debt" writes PL Thomas.
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Right to a Lawyer Can Be an Empty Promise for the Poor
The United States ranks 66th out of 98 countries in access to and affordability of civil legal services.
Income Inequality Goes Viral
Over the weekend, a YouTube video breaking down income inequality in America went viral.
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Fleeing His Own War on Drugs, Felipe Calderón Finds Refuge at Harvard
Citizens from 28 countries are petitioning Calderu00f3n's fellowship.
Henry A. Giroux | The Politics of Disimagination and the Pathologies of Power
The radical imagination waits to be unleashed through social movements in which injustice is put on the run.