Tag: Poverty

Cartoons: The Candidate

Reports: Romney’s Indifference to the Poor

Ear to the Ground: Mitt Romney Says He Is ‘Not Concerned About the Very Poor’

Ear to the Ground: California: How Heartless Can You Get?

Reports: Truthdiggers of the Week: Indiana University Poverty Researchers

Reports: At Risk: America’s Poor During and After the Great Recession

Ear to the Ground: Millions of Americans to Be Driven Into Poverty, Study Says

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges Lays It All Out

Ear to the Ground: Census Shows Nearly Half of Americans Are Struggling Financially

Ear to the Ground: Gingrich Still Supports Child Labor as Long as the Kids Are Really Poor

Ear to the Ground: Childhood Poverty Soars in Oakland

Reports: Below the Safety Net

Reports: Thanks for What?

Ear to the Ground: Introducing the ‘Near Poor’

Ear to the Ground: To Protest Foreclosures, San Jose Priest Divests $3 Million From Bank of America

Reports: The War Against the Poor

Cartoons: Poverty and Infant Mortality

Reports: On Edge of Paradise, Coachella Workers Live in Grim Conditions

Ear to the Ground: Portraits of Misery in Coachella

Ear to the Ground: 22 Percent of American Children Live in Poverty

A/V Booth: Cornel West Recalls the Attica Prison Rebellion

Ear to the Ground: The 10 Worst U.S. State Economies

Reports: MLK’s Vision of Justice

Ear to the Ground: Welfare Reform in a Jobless Economy

Ear to the Ground: Hurricane Katrina Pain Index 2011

Ear to the Ground: Activist Spells Out Our Great Shame

Ear to the Ground: U.K. Rioters: Young, Poor, Male and Unemployed

Ear to the Ground: Naomi Klein on Riots and Resistance

Ear to the Ground: Barbara Ehrenreich: ‘Poverty Has Been Criminalized in America’

Cartoons: Poverty

Reports: America Is a Spark Away From Riots of Its Own

A/V Booth: The Top 1 Percent

Ear to the Ground: EU Battles Extremes

Reports: ‘Food Terrorism’ Next Door to the Magic Kingdom

Ear to the Ground: Poverty Wrecks the Mind, Not Just the Wallet

Reports: Second-Class Students

Ear to the Ground: Wal-Mart’s Customers Are Running Out of Money

Ear to the Ground: Soaring Food Prices Threaten Asia’s Poor

Ear to the Ground: Soaring Food Prices Drive Millions Into Poverty

A/V Booth: Hard Times and Homeless Kids

Cartoons: U.N.’s Poverty Goals

Cartoons: After the U.N. Summit

Cartoons: This Much

Reports: The China Superpower Hoax

Ear to the Ground: Waiter, There’s Porn in My Slideshow

Ear to the Ground: Checking Up on the Millennium Development Goals

Ear to the Ground: One of Seven Americans Lives in Poverty

Ear to the Ground: ‘Robin Hood Tax’ Gains Currency

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan Floodwaters Keep on Coming

Reports: Obama and Urban Crisis

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan’s Flood Misery Continues

Reports: Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake

Ear to the Ground: Troubled Times Slash G-8 Aid Pledge

Reports: Another World Is Possible, Another Detroit Is Happening

Ear to the Ground: Millions at Risk in Africa Drought

Reports: Financial Reform Won’t Alter Capitalism’s Icarus Trajectory

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges on Poverty and the Permanent Lower Class

Reports: The Invisible Ward 8

Ear to the Ground: Catholic Bishop ‘Can See the Arguments’ for Condoms in Third World

Reports: Surviving Without a Safety Net

Ear to the Ground: Tracking the Status of the World’s Women

Ear to the Ground: Waiting for Aid in Chile

Ear to the Ground: Rebuilding Haiti to Take Generations

Ear to the Ground: Food Crisis Grows in Haiti

Ear to the Ground: South Carolina Lt. Gov. Apologizes for Comparing the Poor to ‘Stray Animals’

Reports: Turning King’s Dream Into a Nightmare

Ear to the Ground: Half of America’s Children Will Get Food Stamps

Ear to the Ground: United Nations: 1 Billion Going Hungry Worldwide

Ear to the Ground: Kenyan Poverty Tourism

Ear to the Ground: G-20 Muscles G-7 Aside

Reports: The Other Public Options

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Poverty Level Leaps to 11-Year High

Reports: States Ignoring Stimulus Welfare Fund

Reports: Million-Dollar Baby: How Much Would You Pay for a Baby If You Couldn’t Have One?

Reports: China Is Here

Reports: The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed

Ear to the Ground: China Eludes Greenhouse Limits

A/V Booth: Bill Maher: America Is Greedy, Not Good

Ear to the Ground: Climate Change Kills

Truthdig Podcast: Breadline USA

Reports: Breadline USA

Reports: Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids

Reports: Obama’s Plan to Save the World

Reports: Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Arts and Culture: Slumdog Sourpuss

Ear to the Ground: Stimulus Survives Senate Pecking

Reports: It’s Not Going to Be OK

Arts and Culture: Brenda Wineapple on Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Reports: Still Dreaming After All These Years

Reports: The Party of No Ideas

Arts and Culture: Andrew Nagorski on the Bolsheviks’ Crimes

Reports: Believe It or Not, 2008 Was Relatively Nonviolent

Reports: Voices of Resistance Sing On

Reports: Why I Am a Socialist

Reports: Warren Is Worth the Headache

A/V Booth: Why Gays Are Upset About the Rev. Rick Warren

Reports: The Beauty of Free Money

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Reports: Bush’s Hoover Impression Flirts With Depression

Reports: A Wal-Mart Christmas for a Wal-Mart Country

Reports: A New Pride in Our Country

Reports: Only Nader Is Right on the Issues

Reports: Populism Arising—but Will It Be the Killer Kind?

Reports: McCain Banking on a Confederacy of Dunces

Ear to the Ground: Citizen Tim Takes On Obama by Himself

Reports: McCain’s Socialist Delusion

Reports: No Child Left Behind Fails Us All

Ear to the Ground: ACORN’s Money Tree Has Many Branches

Reports: America’s Political Cannibalism

Reports: Fueling the Fire of Real Change

Ear to the Ground: Tent Cities Springing Up

Reports: Poverty Is the Real Scandal

Reports: The Two John Edwardses

Reports: China’s Sins in the Spotlight

Ear to the Ground: Chronically Homeless Numbers Down 30%, U.S. Claims

Reports: AIDS and the Myth of the Oversexed Negro

Ear to the Ground: World Bank Finds Itself Wanting

Ear to the Ground: Biofuels Blamed in Global Food Crisis

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Withholds Loans in Water-Starved Haiti

Arts and Culture: Nicholas von Hoffman on ‘The Big Squeeze’

Reports: What Obama Should Say to Women

Ear to the Ground: Struggling Families Feel Sting of Rising Food Prices

A/V Booth: Somebody Get the Man a Jet Ski

Ear to the Ground: Edwards Backs Obama

Ear to the Ground: Opposition Calls for Referendum on Bolivia’s Morales

Ear to the Ground: John and Elizabeth Edwards Spill the Beans

Arts and Culture: Jeff Madrick on ‘High Wire,’ Peter Gosselin’s Look at the Economic Meltdown

Reports: The Plague of Potomac Fever

Reports: When Teachers Are the Dropouts

Ear to the Ground: Another Lefty Wins in Latin America

Reports: Two Black Americas

Reports: Remembering the Real Martin Luther King

Reports: Where Do We Go From Here?

Reports: The Democrats’ Class War

Ear to the Ground: The Platform John Edwards Built

A/V Booth: Down to the Fundamentals

Ear to the Ground: Edwards Bows Out

Reports: An Economic Bridge to Nowhere

Arts and Culture: Chalmers Johnson on the Myth of Free Trade

Ear to the Ground: Remembering Martin Luther King

Cartoons: Latin America

Cartoons: Compassionate Conservatism

Reports: Looking Beyond the Haircut

A/V Booth: New Orleans Homes to Be Demolished

Ear to the Ground: Riots Spread In France

Ear to the Ground: Paris Is Burning Again

Reports: Land of Broken Dreams

Reports: A Thanksgiving Reality Check

Reports: Oprah’s Learning Curve

A/V Booth: Maher Calls for a Middle-Class Uprising

Cartoons: Rich Government, Poor People

Reports: A ‘Third Way’ for Liberals and Conservative Christians

Reports: Bush Gets Tightfisted With Sick Kids

Ear to the Ground: Child Insurance Gains, but a Veto Won’t Be Overridden

Reports: Crime, Poverty and Education: It’s Not Rocket Science

Reports: Bush Goes Down With the SCHIP

Reports: ‘Giving’ and Taking

Truthdig Podcast: Crime, Poverty and Education: It’s Not Rocket Science

Cartoons: Mediwolf

Reports: News Flash: Substance Sells

Reports: War in Iraq, Poverty in America

Reports: Making the Grade

Ear to the Ground: Democrats to Bush: Veto This!

Cartoons: Africa’s Obesity Problem

Reports: Finally, Democrats Move Poverty to the Foreground

A/V Booth: Not Your Typical Political Debate

Reports: The Forgotten War on Drugs and Election ‘08

Truthdig Podcast: The Forgotten War on Drugs and Election ‘08

Ear to the Ground: Jenna Bush Has a New Career

Reports: The Greatest Threat to Choice

Reports: The High Cost of Ignoring Poverty

Reports: Minimum Compassion for Wage Slaves

Reports: ‘American Idol’ Tackles Poverty

Reports: The Imus Distraction

Ear to the Ground: Climate Crisis Threatens Billions

Ear to the Ground: In Orlando, Charity Can Be a Crime

A/V Booth: Truthdig Podcast: The Consistent Christian

Truthdig Podcast: The Consistent Christian: Dr. Joel Hunter

Reports: The Invisible City: Entering Oakland

Reports: The Ghost of Giuliani’s Political Past

Reports: The Said and the Unsaid

A/V Booth: Podcast: Alternative Energy, the State of the Union and More

Truthdig Podcast: Robert Scheer, James Harris and Joshua Scheer on Alternative Energy, the State of the Union and More

Reports: Marie Cocco: Senators Hijack Minimum-Wage Increase

Reports: Martin Luther King Jr.: ‘A Society Gone Mad on War’

Ear to the Ground: Kirk Douglas’ Birthday Plea

Ear to the Ground: Report: World Bank Fails to Address Poverty

A/V Booth: Colbert on Christian Conservative Hypocrisy

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: The Rev. Joel Hunter

Reports: Marie Cocco: The USDA’s Awkward Timing

Ear to the Ground: USDA Eliminates ‘Hunger’

Ear to the Ground: American Companies Fight For Right to Bleed China

Reports: Robert Scheer: Clinton Ended Welfare, Not Poverty

Ear to the Ground: Paying for Being Poor

Ear to the Ground: The Religious Left Rises Again

Reports: Needed: A New Direction for U.S.-Russian Relations

Ear to the Ground: Wolfowitz Packing World Bank With Cronies

Ear to the Ground: Their Dogs Eat Better Than You Do

Ear to the Ground: Food Shortages Put Millions of Kenyans in Peril

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