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Jillian Sanders: It's The Place I Expected To Be At 30 -- And I Love It

2013-05-06T09:25:12Z

The night of my 30th birthday, I fell asleep in my mother's childhood bedroom. The next morning, my grandparents served me Entenmann's crumb cake. It was the first birthday I celebrated without a date in 10 years. I felt whole and at peace.

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Too Poor For Health Care, Too Rich For Medicaid

2012-12-28T08:40:45Z

RUSTON, La. -- With no health insurance and not enough money for a doctor, Laura Johnson is long accustomed to treating her ailments with a self-writt...

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Chris Christie Pushes Union-Busting Police Plan For Country's Poorest City

2012-11-19T02:38:55Z

CAMDEN, N.J. -- On a cold autumn night, Darran Johnson, 22, stands by the police tape strung between two trees in the housing complex where he lives w...

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Despite Merger Promise, Rural AT&T Customers Find High-Speed Internet Out of Reach

2012-11-18T12:22:06Z

HAZLEHURST, Miss. -- Cedric Wiggins thought high-speed Internet would have long since arrived in this corner of rural Mississippi.

He figured this ...

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Leda Natkin Nelis: Losing It

2012-11-16T17:07:04Z

My daughter was surfing the Internet and asked me why Britney Spears shaved her head a few years back. "She was having a nervous breakdown," I explained. My daughter looked at me thoughtfully. "Isn't that what you have sometimes?" she asked. GULP.

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Stephenie Zamora: 5 Insights To Get You Through A Tough Change

2012-11-11T10:02:22Z

I'm in no way suggesting that hurt and depression are good places to hang out. They're not. I'm all about happiness, joy and fulfillment! However, when things in your life aren't working or you're feeling down and overwhelmed, sometimes you have to fall apart.

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Devon Corneal: What I Need My Son To Know About My Past

2012-10-25T14:44:20Z

Because I had less than I needed, I fight the impulse to give them everything they want.

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Jim Wallis: Let's Talk Poverty in the Debate

2012-10-02T16:02:10Z

Tomorrow night is the first presidential debate. It will undoubtedly be an important moment in the campaign for the highest office in the land. But whose lives will it be important to?

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Chasm In The Classroom: Poorest Cities Back To School Amid Massive Cuts

2012-10-02T14:43:00Z

READING, Pa. -- The day before school starts, 8-year-old Tianna wakes up worried. She's worried about the cafeteria food that she receives for free, b...

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Billy Shore: Bearing Witness to the Courage and Gratitude of Those Who Once Benefitted From SNAP

2012-09-27T11:43:20Z

It doesn't take tremendous courage for Washington politicians to cut benefits for politically powerless women and children. On the other hand, imagine the courage it must take for successful men and women to share their personal stories that they once needed the food and nutrition assistance.

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Rural Minorities Struggling To Get Foothold On Economic Ladder

2012-09-20T09:20:39Z

About 22 miles northeast of Laredo, Texas, in an otherwise desolate and unincorporated stretch of Webb County, a roughed-out grid of unnamed dirt road...

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No Free Lunch: In Chicago, Poor Students Going Hungry As Strike Persists

2012-09-13T20:05:00Z

CHICAGO –- On a normal Thursday morning in September, Marcus Turner would be sitting in a classroom at Hyde Park High School, looking forward to the...

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Chris Hedges: A World of Hillbilly Heroin

2012-08-21T23:30:05Z

Drug overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in West Virginia, and the state leads the country in fatal drug overdoses. OxyContin -- nicknamed "hillbilly heroin" -- is king.

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Ira Chernus: Ignoring the Homeless Is Un-American

2012-07-26T09:42:25Z

Responding to the growing epidemic of homelessness is not simply an act of charity. It's an essential way to live out our most traditional myths of what it means to be a good American.

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U.S. Poverty Could Reach Highest Level Since 1960s

2012-07-22T08:43:18Z

WASHINGTON — The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty ...

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Lawrence J. Hanley: Public Transportation: A Missed Opportunity to Create Jobs

2012-07-11T11:00:57Z

Every $1 billion invested in public transportation creates and supports 36,000 American jobs. That is real job growth.

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Chasm In The Classroom: Inside The Battle To Close The Achievement Gap

2012-06-23T10:00:00Z

NEW YORK -- Ana Enriquez, 17, did her homework in a rat-infested South Bronx apartment, where she shared a bed with her mother and lived with five ot...

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'Back At Square One': As States Repurpose Welfare Funds, More Families Fall Through Safety Net

2012-06-19T12:07:00Z

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. -- Brianna Butler would prefer never again to see the inside of the DeKalb County welfare office. She is eager to work. This she s...

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EPA Digs Into Landfill's Alleged Civil Rights Abuse

2012-06-19T11:44:15Z

The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Civil Rights has agreed to investigate a complaint filed by residents of a largely African-American co...

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Pennsylvania Public Defenders Rebel Against Crushing Caseloads

2012-05-30T12:00:40Z

At half past 5 on a cold, cloudy April morning, Ed Olexa kneels by his front door, sorting through stacks of case files for the coming day's hearings....

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Bobbi Silten: Missing Out on a Rite of Passage?

2012-06-15T11:29:36Z

Let's not let the difficult job market rob a generation of young people from having a valuable experience to learn, grow and cross the threshold into adulthood. If your company can give a young person a paying job, great. But if it can't, think about the many other ways to help.

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Holly Sidell: What Is Your Breakdown Trying to Tell You?

2012-06-13T17:24:47Z

I am aware now that I need to deal with my real feelings. I have to actually feel the grief, feel the fear. I have to process it all. Which sucks, honestly. It's painful. Who wants to feel pain? But, it's the only way through it.

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Polluting the Poor in Alabama

2012-06-13T15:01:44Z

The following story first appeared in the June 17, 2012 issue of "Huffington." magazine for the iPad. To learn more about the magazine, visit huffingt...

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Mohamed A. El-Erian: The Economy Will Do More Than Define the Elections

2012-06-25T19:14:47Z

For the economy to grow robustly for a number of years, Washington needs to move simultaneously and boldly on a number of different policy fronts. Otherwise, actions taken in any one area would be quickly undermined by lack of progress elsewhere.

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Times Of Trouble: Ex-Offenders Struggle To Escape Past Lives

2012-06-09T11:33:50Z

NEW YORK -- As Rudy Holder walked down East Harlem's main drag, everyone seemed to remember him. One man after another greeted him with a handshake or...

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