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John Boehner's ready to pop an orange aneurysm over states "cheating" to preserve food stamps 3 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 8 2280

Jon Pie: 'Lifestyle Choices' 🇬🇧 7 appalachiablue Nov 2023 Nov 2023 13 2601

Just when you thought sequestration was working..... 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1932

Justice Dept. announces $4.7 million plan to address rift between police and communities 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1492

Kitsap Rescue Mission set to lose permit to operate overnight shelter 0 icymist Sep 2019 Sep 2019 0 2847

Labor Day Assignment: Educating the Uninformed 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1713

LAHSA Explains Workers Throwing Food Away Intended For Homeless Individuals 0 Anon-C May 2022 May 2022 4 5747

Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 2015

Let’s try out conservative economic theories on rich people! 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 1944

Life-coaching on skid row starts with scrapping the textbook 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 1631

Like Taking Candy From A Baby 2 unhappycamper Dec 2014 Dec 2014 10 9199

Living on the Streets of L.A. 2 Newest Reality Feb 2020 Jun 2020 3 8069

Louie Gohmert: I became a congressman to stop single moms from getting welfare checks 4 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 2508

Low-income renters in Anchorage bitten by another problem: Bedbugs 4 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Dec 2014 0 2888

Low-wage employers are the real ‘welfare queens’ 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 5 1827

LTTE: $12b for an aircraft carrier? Just imagine what that money could buy 3 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 6 2217

Many People Cannot Boycott Corporate Tax Dodgers Like Walgreen's 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 1927

Mass Poor People's Assembly & Moral March on Washington June 20th, 0 BigmanPigman Jun 2020 Jun 2020 4 10022

Maybe our world needs soup lines and 30% unemployment. 7 3feetofsnow Aug 2012 Aug 2012 4 3286

Meanwhile, we just had our Gas shut off... 15 FirstLight Mar 2013 Apr 2013 13 6136

MEDICAID Cuts Start In Spring, Est 8M Will Lose Eligibility: How To Shop For New Health Ins Plans -P 0 appalachiablue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 6470

Meet the Billionaires Using Their Immense Wealth to Make Life Miserable for Ordinary Americans 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 1745

Mich: Homeless Woman Living Inside Rooftop Store Sign, with Computer, Coffee Maker 5 appalachiablue May 2024 May 2024 12 1987

Michigan's child-care system is an utter disgrace — and it’s only getting worse 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1956

Mick Mulvaney's Steel Workers 2 srcameron Apr 2017 Apr 2017 0 6443

Miracle...we're actually going to a concert 14 XanaDUer2 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 20 1929

Moms in ‘survival mode' as U.S. trails world on paid leave 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 1825

Money in Hyping the Generational War Story 0 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 1591

More Evidence "Centrist" Solutions Can't Save Us 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1985

More Hunger for the Poorest Americans 1 unhappycamper Dec 2013 Dec 2013 5 2161

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More MIC Welfare Means Less For We The People 4 unhappycamper Dec 2014 Dec 2014 4 2845

More Than 50% of All Americans Have Been Poor, and Capitalism Thinks That's Awesome 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 8 1904

Most 2016 GOP Presidential Candidates Would Push Seniors Into Poverty By Cutting Social Security 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 5 2681

My first poem 0 kozar Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 875

Nation's Poor Remain Hungry as Wall Street Feasts 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1713

NC takes five kids from pregnant, homeless mom who sought home for them on Craigslist 2 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 2214

Nearly 800 million people suffering from hunger worldwide: report 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2800

New 5-year farm bill would cut subsidies while slashing food stamps benefits 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1758

New Alabama food truck regulations prevent local churches from feeding the homeless 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 4 2323

New Orleans Katrina Pain Index at Ten: Who Was Left Behind 1 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 3244

New PA Budget: Reverse Robin Hood PA GOP Robs From the Poor to Give to the Rich [VIDEO] 0 Counterpoint PA Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1941

No City for Poor Men 5 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 2487

No shortage of info in Detroit bankruptcy 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1707

Norfolk (VA) homeless shelter suspends programs 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1844

Not just Detroit: residents of nearby Michigan city face $11,000 water bills 0 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 2208

Not War on Poverty but War on the Poor: Washington’s Real Foreign Policy Aims 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 1735

Number of US homeowners reaches 20-year low 8 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 3 3311

NYC Anti-Homeless Streets, Hostile Architecture, Housing Crisis🔻Tackling Homelessness in Europe 3 appalachiablue Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 1327

Oct29: The Coming Food Stamp Cut Will Hit 900,000 Veterans 3 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 8 2282

Oh my god 3 rusty quoin Dec 2015 Jan 2016 7 3522

One in five American children is growing up in poverty today. 3 Scuba Dec 2011 Dec 2011 4 2609

One-of-a-kind hospice for the homeless is focus of new documentary - ABC News 1 TexasTowelie Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 892

Only the Little People Will Suffer: Sanctioning the New Cold War 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1883

Opinion: Evaluating teachers based on student performance is 'punitive measure that demoralizes teac 1 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 3 1918

Our 18th Century Bill of Rights Needs Revising 0 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 5 2031

PA Gov. Corbett Unveils Plan to Restrict Medicaid, Use Funds for Private Insurance [VIDEO] 0 Counterpoint PA Sep 2013 Sep 2013 1 1981

Paul Krugman dismantles notion that the 1 percent’s lack of humility is the real problem 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 6 1870

Paying off the mortgage tomorrow! Yea! 23 Chainfire Apr 2022 Dec 2022 10 4304

Pell grants to bring college back to prison: US is 'a nation of second chances' 2 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 3568

Petition to Obama for humanitarian aid 0 undeterred Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 2122

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Pew survey shows sharp partisan divide on combating inequality 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1536

Playing Politics with People’s Lives 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 1946

Pope Francis tells the business elite gathered in Davos to help those ‘still living in dire poverty 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1567

Pope Leaves, Boehner Resigns, Shutdown Looms… 0 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 2576

Poverty among black children ‘should be considered a national crisis’ 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 5 8908

Poverty Is Both a Political and a Moral Choice Made By the Powerful 2 inanna Dec 2017 Feb 2018 7 3937

Poverty only exists (Poll) 0 Riftaxe Mar 2013 Mar 2013 2 2042

Poverty rate posts 1st notable drop since '06; Latinos show big strides 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1992

Poverty solved! 1 Riftaxe May 2013 May 2013 2 2335

Poverty? Really? 0 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 8 2533

Predatory Capitalism and the System's Denial in the Face of Truth 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1738

Probation Privateers Prey on the Poor 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 1597

Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014 35 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2015 57 15357

Proposed Constitutional Amendment, Limiting Idle Wealth 1 Al Carroll Oct 2015 Oct 2015 6 4481

Proposition 1: How to Swindle the Middle Class 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 3 2216

Protesters call for Treasury official to leave role in Puerto Rico debt crisis 0 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 5 3335

Public cos. to report pay gap between CEOs, employees 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1935

Punishing the poor: Michigan adopts law to take away families’ food assistance if kids miss school 6 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Jun 2015 9 3042

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