Us Poverty

Is King's Complete Message Breaking Through?

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

When King was assassinated, he was trying to move the country to take on the moral issue of economic injustice. And, for the first time in many years, the remembrances of King's death urged the nation to do the same.

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Martin, Bobby, John and the Drawbridge of Hope

R.T. Eby | Posted 04.07.2008 | Home

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R.T. Eby

The top 0.1 percent of Americans, who earn more than $10 million a year, pay a lesser share of their income in taxes than those who make between $100,000 and $200,000.

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Remembering Dr. King's Legacy on Poverty

Rep. Barbara Lee | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Barbara Lee

Addressing poverty should be one of our first priorities, not the last. And one of the first steps we should take is to end our generation's version of the Vietnam War, our occupation of Iraq.

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Unions Can Help Us Get Over the Mountaintop Towards the Promised Land

Gerry Hudson | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Gerry Hudson

As Martin Luther King knew so well, unions have long built bridges to those islands of poverty that stain our society and threaten the American Dream.

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Think You Know the "Godsquad?"

William Fisher | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

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William Fisher

All evangelicals aren't loyal Bushies. They aren't even all Republicans. And they're certainly not homogenous. On many, many issues, they're pretty much like most of those who are reading this column.

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Willful Ignorance, Callous Indifference, or Both?

Richard Belzer | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

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Richard Belzer

The overpaid, smug opinionated keepers of Wall Street's gates are, in their view, the only class of people who can explain the confusing riddle of the American economy.

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Our American Tragedy: The Killing Fields of Childhood Poverty

Dan Agin | Posted 10.26.2007 | Politics

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Dan Agin

Poverty derives from what people can or cannot do. Any family that cannot afford health insurance for its children is poor -- no matter what the family income.

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We Can Do Better Than This

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Energy Efficiency, Minimum Wage, Poverty, US Poverty, Middle Class, Tax Cuts, Free Trade, Defense Spending, Health Care, Labor Unions, Global Warming, Fair Trade, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News
Sen. Bernie Sanders

The decline of the middle class combined with growing income inequality is a national scandal -- which Congress must address.

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