Poverty America

Developing a System of Accountability

Jeremy Everett | Posted 05.17.2012

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Jeremy Everett

We as a nation cannot agree upon who is at fault for poverty and whose responsibility it is to address it. We are bent on it being one type of problem and one sector's responsibility.

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Cornel West and Tavis Smiley Rightfully Scare Us

Ben Mangan | Posted 05.01.2012

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Ben Mangan

The heart of Smiley and West's message is simple and profound: the United States is far more economically divided than most people want to acknowledge,and this chasm will destroy our nation.

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Remaking America: From Poverty to Prosperity

Byron Williams | Posted 03.12.2012

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Byron Williams

If there remains an unspoken Faustian bargain to not hear the cries of the poor, what should we expect when they reach the "Fannie Lou Hamer moment?" Hamer, a civil rights heroine, famously opined: "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."

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America's Poor: Where Poverty Is Rising In America (CHART)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thanks to the recession, 2009 was one of the worst years for poverty in America in more than half a century. The total number of Americans living in p...

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Is Our Attitude Toward Suffering 'Let Them Eat Cake?'

Paul David Walker | Posted 11.17.2011

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Paul David Walker

It seems to me that we as a nation are moving dangerously close to Marie Antoinette's attitude about the suffering of our people.

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