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Has Kansas Found the Cure for the Reaganomics Disease? 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1852

Fox News: Real ‘poor’ people don’t have air conditioners and computers 2 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2334

Benefits, not just paychecks, have fallen on hard times 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1695

GOP blocks Paycheck Fairness Act — but that’s OK because the pay gap just improved by 1 cent! 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 2026

The Middle Class and Working Poor's Lifelong Losing Game — in 10 Slides 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1884

Congress includes $29 million in cuts to TANF in proposed CR 0 DeadLetterOffice Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 3217

Study says North Carolina among most reliant on income taxes; wealth gap cuts state revenue 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1735

7 astounding facts about the mind-blowing cost of war 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 2139

Aging Americans struggle to pay off student loans 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2017

Study: The widening gap between the rich and the rest of us is ‘unsustainable’ 3 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 2238

Federally-Funded, Universal Pre-K Has Overwhelming Public Support 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1634

Illinois GOPer admits $100,000 wine club fee as Dem opponent tries to live on minimum wage 39 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 32 6689

America's wealth gap 'unsustainable,' may worsen: Harvard study 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1756

Technological upgrades of body and mind soon to be a reality — but only for the very rich 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1698

This Is What We Are Up Against 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 7 1976

Nation's Poor Remain Hungry as Wall Street Feasts 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1797

Rafael Cruz: The ‘average Black’ doesn’t understand why the minimum wage is bad 4 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2428

Billionaire threatens charity donations if Pope continues support for the poor 2 LeftofObama Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 2353

The right’s food stamp embarrassment: A history lesson for the haters 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 2150

The right’s jobs debacle: Here’s how to bring unemployment down to zero 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 6 1833

Labor Day Assignment: Educating the Uninformed 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1808

More Than 50% of All Americans Have Been Poor, and Capitalism Thinks That's Awesome 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 8 2043

Only the Little People Will Suffer: Sanctioning the New Cold War 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1983

A Rising Tide Only Lifts All Boats When Everyone Has a Boat 5 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 16 3031

GOP Policy: Kill the Poor 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Aug 2014 2 2245

“I don’t believe he is sincere”: Paul Ryan’s challenger has a message to send 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 6 2218

The Black Hole That Ate Everything 6 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 9 2569

Blame poverty, not race, say Ferguson’s white minority 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 2210

When Dick Cheney Swatted an "Annoying Mosquito" Named Paul Ryan 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 2120

Forbes: Athletes paying expensive divorce settlements is bigger problem than domestic violence 3 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 2620

Poverty Continued...

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No City for Poor Men 5 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 2757

Proposition 1: How to Swindle the Middle Class 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 3 2387

Many People Cannot Boycott Corporate Tax Dodgers Like Walgreen's 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 2048

Finance in America: Promoting Inequality and Waste 1 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1913

Where is Childhood Homelessness Getting Worse? 18 littlemissmartypants Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 4504

Things my Grandmother used to say about money 2 ymetca Jul 2014 Jul 2014 7 2642

San Francisco cracks down on homeless: Sleep in train station, go to jail 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1767

NC takes five kids from pregnant, homeless mom who sought home for them on Craigslist 2 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 2392

Imagine What We Could Buy If We Didn't Have to Spend Billions on Police Brutality Cases 1 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1932

Bombshell Study: America's Wealthy Even More Obscenely Rich Than Anybody Thought 1 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 2186

You Know Your Country Sucks When You Look Wistfully Back at Stalin 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 1849

The Most Expensive Warplane in American History Is Too Dangerous to Fly and Just Caught Fire (Again) 4 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 2764

Predatory Capitalism and the System's Denial in the Face of Truth 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1844

Sixty Five Million Left out of July 4 Celebration 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1913

Norfolk (VA) homeless shelter suspends programs 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1951

Not War on Poverty but War on the Poor: Washington’s Real Foreign Policy Aims 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 1854

Generational poverty the exception, not the rule 2 theHandpuppet Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 2135

U.S. mayors tackle the income gap: Goar 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1775

(CO) Collins' answer to homelessness: Ship them out and 'make them work' 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 2639

(CA) Homelessness on rise in beach areas 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1979

Blue Planet et al. Appeal to UN over Detroit Water cut-off to Thousands 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1876

Groups Appeal to UN for 'Humanity' as Detroit Shuts Off Water to Thousands 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1981

AZ schools chief outs himself as anonymous Internet troll who calls poor people ‘lazy pigs’ 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 7 2353

Doing for the Poor and Doing to the Poor 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1927

The homeless people’s handwritten signs that are being turned into fonts 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1968

The New Ground-Based Defense Missiles Cost $40 Billion That We Could Use For A Lot of Other Things. 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1699

IMF cuts U.S. growth outlook, says full employment years off 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1799

The Three Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Poverty 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 2100

Let’s try out conservative economic theories on rich people! 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 2103

Just when you thought sequestration was working..... 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 2029

Poverty Continued...

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After Piketty, is the Study of Economics the Study of Rising Inequality? 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1636

Risk of depression is nearly twice as high for unemployed Americans 5 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 5 2859

No shortage of info in Detroit bankruptcy 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1836

How Government "Contracting Out" Drives Up Costs, Pushes Down Workers 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1819

What Would Afghan Spending Buy at Home? 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1668

Here's a Little Perspective for You 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 2063

Climate Change, Economic Inequality Are One Debate, says Sen. Warren 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1854

9 Questions about the 1%, the Unemployed and why the one produces the Other 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1933

Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1724

What has meritocracy to do with merit? 3 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 2312

Poverty? Really? 0 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 8 2628

I Love New York: The Haves and the Have-nots 0 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 2 1922

The US jet fighter that can do it all—maybe (xpost from NSD) 3 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 3 2011

Rep. Paul Ryan targets Poor as his “Signature Issue”, and I do Mean Targets (Cartoon) 0 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 8 2104

Gov. Fallin signs bill curbing minimum-wage increases in Oklah 3 yesphan Apr 2014 May 2014 1 2126

25% of Colorado foster kids on psychotropic 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 May 2014 4 2027

Bryan Fischer tells poor people: ‘Kiss the ground’ beneath the richest 1 percent 6 unhappycamper Apr 2014 May 2014 3 2915

Inside San Jose's Tent City 0 gejohnston May 2014 May 2014 2 2104

Homeless man straps GoPro camera to his chest to film his life in tech-heavy San Francisco 5 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 3 2431

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