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Preying on the Poor

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 05.17.2012

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Barbara Ehrenreich

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

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Rediscovering Poverty

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 05.15.2012

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Barbara Ehrenreich

By the Reagan era, the "culture of poverty" had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused, not by low wages or a lack of jobs, but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles.

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Taking Stock of the Safety Net, Part 1: Overview

Arloc Sherman | Posted 02.15.2012

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Arloc Sherman

Unemployment and long-term unemployment remained very high, as did the percentage Americans without health insurance. Yet things aren't nearly as bad as they could have been.

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Alternative Census Measure Indicates Poverty Higher Than Previously Thought

AP | By HOPE YEN | Posted 01.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A record number of Americans – 49.1 million – are poor, based on a new census measure that for the first time takes into acc...

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Poverty Rates Swelled In Almost All U.S. States, Cities In 2010

Posted 12.20.2011

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The ranks of the poor rose in almost all U.S. states and cities in 2010, despite the end of the longest and deepest economic downturn since the Gr...

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Study: Recession Pushed 25 Percent Of Young U.S. Children Into Poverty

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 11.22.2011

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Twenty-five percent of very young children in America are living in poverty, according to an analysis of Census data released Thursday. The number...

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America's Poorest States

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 11.15.2011

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From 24/7 Wall St.: The U.S. Census Bureau released two pieces of widely followed data Tuesday — one on poverty and the other on median income...

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What My Hurricane Irene Evacuation Taught Me About Poverty

Keli Goff | Posted 10.29.2011

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Keli Goff

Most of us know that there are countless downsides to being poor, but as far as the day-to-day reality of what that actually means for people living in poverty, many of us are vague on the details and prefer to remain that way.

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Laura Bassett

Lawmakers In Poorest States Fail Poverty Scorecard

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. poverty rate jumped to 14.3 percent in 2009 -- its highest level since 1994 -- while lawmakers in some of the poorest states co...

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America's Kids: Bearing the Brunt of the Recession

Mark Shriver | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Shriver

The age group with the highest rates of poverty in the US are children under 18. We can have a robust debate about the role of government for adults living in poverty but children can't work and they can't vote.

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New Record Poverty? Make Kids' Brains "Too Big to Fail"

Jodie Levin-Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jodie Levin-Epstein

Even short-term poverty driven by recession can scar families and hurt the future employment prospects and health outcomes of children.

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9 Signs Of America In Decline: Bad News For Jobs, Education, Happiness

U.S. News & World Report | Rick Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The sky isn't falling, exactly. America isn't on a fast track to irrelevance. Even in a state of total neglect, we could probably shamble along as a d...

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