Truthout
Poverty
Scenes from a Crisis: Volunteers Bond with Occupiers for Sandy Relief
Sandy storm relief volunteers from disparate organizations and backgrounds bond under Occupy's banner for a common cause.
Marriage Not Necessarily a Path Out of Poverty
A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research demonstrates that marriage alone does not ensure economic security and that most parents with below-poverty incomes who are …
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Walmart Workers Gear Up for Black Friday Strike; California Workers Announce Second Strike
Walmart workers to protest conditions, wages on biggest shopping day of the year.
Widespread Use of Plea Bargains Plays Major Role in Mass Incarceration
Plea bargaining has become historically ubiquitous as the principal, if not primary, method of criminal case disposition in the US.
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Community Organizers Fill a Large Gap in Superstorm Sandy Relief, but It’s Not Enough
Four years after “community organizer” became a slur laced with all the racial venom that Sarah Palin could invoke, it is community organizers who are doing the real relief …
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The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse: Hurricane Sandy Rides In
First, 9/11. Next, Katrina. Then Wall Street. Now, Sandy erases once and for all the line between man-made and natural disaster.
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Public School Teachers Spend Billions of Their Own Funds on Student Needs
Teachers' personal money is the most common source of funding for classroom projects.
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Campaign Season Mocked Rich, but Was “Not Concerned About the Very Poor“
Though the number of poor remains large, their profile is low.
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The Audacity of Fate, the Arrogance of Self-Deception and the Romney/Ryan Plan: “Let Them Eat Cat Food“
The stakes are too high to choose
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The Antidote to Ayn Rand
Rand's atavistic utopian fantasy celebrates the virtue of selfishness, while John Dewey's public-minded philosophy is open, progressively democratic and firmly grounded in reality.