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Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Report: nearly half of Tennessee households don’t earn enough to meet basic expenses

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By Anita Wadhwani Nearly half of all Tennessee working families cannot afford the basic cost of living in their counties, according to new a...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Media Summon Inflation Specter to Oppose Student Debt Forgiveness

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LUCA GOLDMANSOUR President Joe Biden’s student debt cancellation plan may not be full forgiveness, but it can still have a life-changing imp...
Monday, April 11, 2022

'A Poor People's Pandemic': Poorest US Counties Suffered Twice the Covid Deaths of Richest

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Jake Johnson April 4th, 2022 Photo credit: Paul Becker "The neglect of poor and low-wealth people in this country during a pandemic is ...
Monday, January 4, 2021

Amid Warnings of Surging Worldwide Poverty, Planet's 500 Richest People Added $1.8 Trillion to Combined Wealth in 2020

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by Julia Conley, Common Dreams staff writer   108  Comments Tesla CEO Elon Musk saw the greatest increase in personal wealth in 2020—report...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

The Big Business of Poverty pimps the poor

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BY CHARLES BROOKS Two years ago , during the aftermath of police violence and protest  demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, the nation...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Poverty in America: who is really deserving of help?

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By Charles Brooks The Economic Policy Institute recently reported that in the roughly three decades leading up to the most recent recessi...

The poor suffers again...billion$ in cut$ to food stamp$

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By Charles Brooks                          Photo credit: kevin dooley via photopin cc Just ten days after delivering his most recent S...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

President Obama's State of the Union address - "At least they're thinking about it..."

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By Charles Brooks (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) In the days leading up to President Barack Obama’s fifth State of the Un...