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How an Apartment Tower in Atlanta Is Makes Life a Living Hell for Its Poor Residents 1 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 9 3508

How can cities successfully enforce a higher minimum wage? 1 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2163

Racialized Poverty in America has Nearly Doubled in 21st Century 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 2484

Game of Groans: How focus on Trump Taunts hides GOP war on Middle Class, Workers 1 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 5 2565

I work at the US Senate. I shouldn’t have to dance at strip clubs to feed my son 8 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 34 4770

Public cos. to report pay gap between CEOs, employees 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1862

Pell grants to bring college back to prison: US is 'a nation of second chances' 2 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 3478

"Welfare": differing connotations? 3 YoungDemCA Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2884

CEO pay at US’s largest companies up 54% since recovery began in 2009 13 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jul 2015 20 5969

You’re probably going to be poor 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 7 2289

New Orleans Katrina Pain Index at Ten: Who Was Left Behind 1 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 3154

Sandy Irving: Invest in people, not military jets 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 2 1684

Republicans can’t stop comparing food stamp recipients to wild animals on Facebook 2 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 3746

Debunking the Debased Gospel of Wealth: "1% Deserve Loot Plus Our Thanks" 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 2025

Here’s how homeless kids and families are trying to survive in one of America’s richest cities 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 5 2879

80 percent of girls in juvenile detention have been sexually or physically abused: study 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 3622

U.S. Wealth Concentration: The Most Accurate Current Estimates 5 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 14 2486

Not just Detroit: residents of nearby Michigan city face $11,000 water bills 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 2110

The Real Debt Ceiling 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1961

Uh, no. The fire and brimstone people aren’t going to start feeding and clothing the poor. 3 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 4 2392

Number of US homeowners reaches 20-year low 8 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 3094

Our 18th Century Bill of Rights Needs Revising 0 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 5 1958

Punishing the poor: Michigan adopts law to take away families’ food assistance if kids miss school 6 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 9 2933

The True Cost of America’s Ongoing Wars: Sebastian Junger, Spencer Ackerman et al. 0 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 7 2249

The real 47 percent: GOP candidate with a Ferrari pays no federal income taxes for third year 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 May 2015 3 2351

Tax Fairness Could Mean More Resources 3 unhappycamper Feb 2015 May 2015 4 2614

40 years after Vietnam: Celebrating the End of One War, and Witnessing the Start of a New One Here a 0 unhappycamper May 2015 May 2015 3 2186

GOP Assault on Social Security Could be 'Death Sentence' for Nation's Disabled 7 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Apr 2015 38 3672

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 appalachiablue Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2255

Report: 1 in 4 Michigan Kids Now Lives in Poverty 0 project_bluebook Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 2625

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Wake groups say NC grades point to problems of segregated, high-poverty schools 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1933

Growing inequality is disastrous but not inevitable 1 no more banksters Oct 2014 Feb 2015 3 2415

College Completion Gap Between Rich and Poor Has Doubled: Study 2 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 2202

This Long-Lost Constitutional Clause Could Save the Right to Vote 11 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Feb 2015 20 6423

‘It’s ridiculous!’ Conservative mother fumes over school assignment claiming GOP is anti-welfare 6 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 2816

Right-to-work laws are union-hating Republican’s weapon of choice 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1837

South Dakota GOP wants to erase state’s new minimum wage law 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1909

More Evidence "Centrist" Solutions Can't Save Us 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1893

American Heresy: Why I Don’t Give a Good Goddamn Who Wins the Super Bowl 6 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 3261

U.N. officials tour Detroit to assess human rights impact of water shutoffs 3 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Jan 2015 2 2247

Low-income renters in Anchorage bitten by another problem: Bedbugs 4 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Dec 2014 0 2733

More MIC Welfare Means Less For We The People 4 unhappycamper Dec 2014 Dec 2014 4 2665

Like Taking Candy From A Baby 2 unhappycamper Dec 2014 Dec 2014 10 9011

Why We Are Poor 1 unhappycamper Dec 2014 Dec 2014 10 2009

Surprise: Since Billionaires caused Crash of 2009, Their Numbers have Doubled 1 unhappycamper Nov 2014 Nov 2014 6 1995

Will growing gap between rich and poor influence midterm elections? 1 unhappycamper Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 1990

The Zombie System: How Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 2065

Low-wage employers are the real ‘welfare queens’ 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 5 1751

Dick Cheney: A Most Expensive Man 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 10 2441

Top 1% ‘own half global wealth’ 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 11 1947

Does Rising Inequality Make a Democracy More Warlike? 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1915

Army’s Message At AUSA: Don’t Cut ‘Foundational Force’ 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1803

Dear Democrats: Please All and You'll Please None 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1646

When 57% Of All Discretionary Funding Ain't Enough 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1824

4 Reasons You Should Be Taking America's Inequality Very Personally 4 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 11 2531

The Three Million Forgotten Victims of the Great Recession 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 8 1698

Did Wal-Mart just move us closer to single-payer health care? 5 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 2263

Why the Right Is So Freaked Out about the Inconvenient Truths of Actual U.S. History 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 4 2091

Girl, 13, advocate for homeless charity 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1650

Rosanne Greco: One Flew Over the F-35 Cuckoo Nest 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1504

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Water is the new oil: How corporations took over a basic human right 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1888

Why voters don’t care more about income inequality 5 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 4 2282

We Need To Talk. 19 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 38 4005

The Surprising Reason that Crushing Economic Inequality Isn't More of Election Issue 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 4 1808

Michigan's child-care system is an utter disgrace — and it’s only getting worse 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1862

$22 Billion to Fight ISIL in same Year Congress cut $8.7 bn in Food Stamps (xpost from Congress) 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 5 1882

Paul Krugman dismantles notion that the 1 percent’s lack of humility is the real problem 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 6 1813

BOHICA 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1743

Poverty rate posts 1st notable drop since '06; Latinos show big strides 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1897

Should U.S. bolster its defense budget? 5 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2169

US, Iraq have same child homicide rate – UNICEF 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 9 1774

Bill Maher: ‘White America needs to stop putting forth this toxic idea that racism is over’ 2 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2236

Boehner messes up Paul Ryan’s image rehab: Attacks unemployed as lazy and unmotivated 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 9 1773

Colombia Is Taking On Its Billionaires. Why Can't We? 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1736

Who Gets Left Holding the Bag? 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 5 1611

Who's getting rich off the stock market? 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1677

Justice Dept. announces $4.7 million plan to address rift between police and communities 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1425

Has Kansas Found the Cure for the Reaganomics Disease? 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1701

Fox News: Real ‘poor’ people don’t have air conditioners and computers 2 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2078

Benefits, not just paychecks, have fallen on hard times 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1537

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