Elite Institutions Hoard Wealth While Cities Die
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View ArticleWarnings That Millions More Could Go Hungry as Trump Pushes $4.5 Billion in...
“The Trump administration’s latest proposal to cut SNAP would leave millions of people, including struggling families, seniors, and people with disabilities, with less help putting food on the table.”...
View ArticleOpinion: I Was an Anti-Abortion Crusader. Now I Support Roe v. Wade.
OMG…this is one of the best opinion pieces on abortion it should be shoved down the throats of all that want to ban abortion based on how they feel about it…not giving a damn about how that fetus, once...
View ArticleHow the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth
Mass Black incarceration didn’t just happen; it was engineered at the highest levels of US government. “Between the late 1960s and early 1980s, the federal government slowly built a trap, creating the...
View ArticleWith No Evidence That #GOPTaxScam Has Benefited Most Americans, Republicans...
“The new line from Republicans in Congress is that Americans are ‘better off’ because of last year’s tax cut, so we have to extend it. Well, some Americans are better off—people like me who are wealthy...
View ArticleWisconsin is the GOP model for ‘welfare reform.’ But as work requirements...
The Trump administration is using Wisconsin as a model, but hopeful statistics belie the continuing struggles of low-income families trying to meet increasing standards for public assistance. Image:...
View ArticleCarson’s New Plan Raises Rent for Millions in Public Housing
Millions of families living in federally subsidized public housing would pay more for rent under a proposal unveiled by Ben Carson Image: Time Magazine Millions of families living in federally...
View ArticleFifty Years On, MLK’s Call for Economic Justice Rings True
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down fifty years ago today on April 4, 1968. It was a turning point of the twentieth century, marking an ending and a beginning. It was the end of one phase...
View ArticleNeeds go unmet 6 months after Maria hit Puerto Rico
Generators are still humming. Candles are still flickering. Homes are still being repaired. Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria exactly six months ago, and the U.S. territory is still struggling to...
View ArticleBrain surgery is no match for running HUD, a frustrated Carson says
Image: Erin Schaff/The New York Times Before Ben Carson accepted President Donald Trump’s offer to become secretary of housing and urban development, a friend implored him to turn down the job to...
View ArticleStamping Out Hunger…No Stomping on Hunger!!!
I lived in the woods north of Santa Cruz, CA. for part of the summer in 1978. The rest of those five or six months (it was California) I either lived on the beaches north of the town or was on the...
View ArticleDick Gregory, who rose from poverty to become a groundbreaking comedian and...
Dick Gregory, who became the first black stand-up comic to break the color barrier in major nightclubs in the early 1960s, a decade in which he satirized segregation and race relations in his act and...
View ArticleA Riot Started in Newark 50 Years Ago. It Shouldn’t Have Been a Surprise
Image: Time Magazine On Wednesday in Newark, N.J., members of the community will gather at a memorial to 26 citizens of that city. Under an inscription — “We will forever remember the names of those...
View ArticleNC NAACP leader William Barber stepping down to help national effort on poverty
RALEIGH The Rev. William J. Barber II will step down as head of the state chapter of the NAACP in June, after more than a decade of leadership that has given the civil rights organization a prominent...
View ArticleNew Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’
What is “lunch shaming?” It happens when a child can’t pay a school lunch bill. In Alabama, a child short on funds was stamped on the arm with “I Need Lunch Money.” In some schools, children are forced...
View ArticleA “failed policy based on failed research”: The destructive legacy of Bill...
Twenty years ago last week, President Bill Clinton signed a historic welfare reform bill formally known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. Image: PAUL J....
View ArticleMichigan Senator Marty Knollenberg apologizes for comment about not being...
Sen. Marty Knollenberg, R-Troy, apologized today for comments he made at a legislative committee meeting in which he referred to not being able to make African-American children white. Image: Detroit...
View ArticleRacially Disparate Views of New Orleans’s Recovery After Hurricane Katrina
As the 10th anniversary approaches of Hurricane Katrina and the catastrophic levee breaches in New Orleans, a new survey finds a stark racial divide in how residents here view the recovery. Nearly four...
View ArticleFreddie Gray ‘died from head injury in police van’
Image: AP Freddie Gray died when his head struck a bolt in a Baltimore police van, a local US TV news station has reported. More from the BBC Posted by Libergirl
View ArticleWhite flight decimated Baltimore businesses long before rioters showed up
The Confirmation Files: Image: Quartz Posted by Libergirl Originally posted on Quartz: On Monday, April 27, the city of Baltimore, Maryland, found itself in the grips of civil unrest. Tension between...
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