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Henry Giroux: Cultivating the radical imagination, civic education and critical modes of literacy are central to producing an informed citizenry, but even more so to constituting any viable notion …

America's broken criminal justice system has consigned millions of people to poverty and poor health as they age. It's time for the aging community to fight.

Strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate about cutting food stamps and have been absorbed into abstract “needy families.”

Republicans would rather pad the wallets of the wealthy elite than put food on the tables of America's most needy and vulnerable.

This Friday, the SNAP program will be slashed by $5 billion anyway, thanks to the expiration of the 2009 Recovery Act that increased funding to that program.

The government shutdown was not to blame for the crashing of the food stamp program for poor families in several states over the weekend, just the latest in a …

Many states ban stamps for ex-prisoners, who face a 50% unemployment rate, making prison the only sure place they won't starve.

Poverty rates have not gone down and hunger in our country may be at its highest levels since the Great Depression.

The Republican controlled House of Representatives have voted on the Farm Bill; part of which includes a $39 billion cut in the food stamp program.

Either there was a massive economic collapse, or people are cheating the government. Who's to say which side is right?