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Benefits, not just paychecks, have fallen on hard times 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1550

GOP blocks Paycheck Fairness Act — but that’s OK because the pay gap just improved by 1 cent! 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1849

The Middle Class and Working Poor's Lifelong Losing Game — in 10 Slides 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1750

Congress includes $29 million in cuts to TANF in proposed CR 0 DeadLetterOffice Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2916

Study says North Carolina among most reliant on income taxes; wealth gap cuts state revenue 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1583

7 astounding facts about the mind-blowing cost of war 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1941

Aging Americans struggle to pay off student loans 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1841

Study: The widening gap between the rich and the rest of us is ‘unsustainable’ 3 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1952

Federally-Funded, Universal Pre-K Has Overwhelming Public Support 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1478

Illinois GOPer admits $100,000 wine club fee as Dem opponent tries to live on minimum wage 39 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 32 5516

America's wealth gap 'unsustainable,' may worsen: Harvard study 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1612

Technological upgrades of body and mind soon to be a reality — but only for the very rich 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1520

This Is What We Are Up Against 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 7 1802

Nation's Poor Remain Hungry as Wall Street Feasts 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1658

Rafael Cruz: The ‘average Black’ doesn’t understand why the minimum wage is bad 4 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2152

Billionaire threatens charity donations if Pope continues support for the poor 2 LeftofObama Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 2085

The right’s food stamp embarrassment: A history lesson for the haters 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1966

The right’s jobs debacle: Here’s how to bring unemployment down to zero 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 6 1682

Labor Day Assignment: Educating the Uninformed 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1654

More Than 50% of All Americans Have Been Poor, and Capitalism Thinks That's Awesome 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 8 1838

Only the Little People Will Suffer: Sanctioning the New Cold War 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1812

A Rising Tide Only Lifts All Boats When Everyone Has a Boat 5 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 16 2658

GOP Policy: Kill the Poor 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Aug 2014 2 2022

“I don’t believe he is sincere”: Paul Ryan’s challenger has a message to send 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 6 2026

The Black Hole That Ate Everything 6 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 9 2238

Blame poverty, not race, say Ferguson’s white minority 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1981

When Dick Cheney Swatted an "Annoying Mosquito" Named Paul Ryan 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 1926

Forbes: Athletes paying expensive divorce settlements is bigger problem than domestic violence 3 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 2416

No City for Poor Men 5 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 2353

Proposition 1: How to Swindle the Middle Class 1 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 3 2116

Poverty Continued...

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Many People Cannot Boycott Corporate Tax Dodgers Like Walgreen's 0 unhappycamper Aug 2014 Aug 2014 4 1828

Finance in America: Promoting Inequality and Waste 1 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1685

Where is Childhood Homelessness Getting Worse? 18 littlemissmartypants Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 3745

Things my Grandmother used to say about money 2 ymetca Jul 2014 Jul 2014 7 2422

San Francisco cracks down on homeless: Sleep in train station, go to jail 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1594

NC takes five kids from pregnant, homeless mom who sought home for them on Craigslist 2 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 2102

Imagine What We Could Buy If We Didn't Have to Spend Billions on Police Brutality Cases 1 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1743

Bombshell Study: America's Wealthy Even More Obscenely Rich Than Anybody Thought 1 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 1983

You Know Your Country Sucks When You Look Wistfully Back at Stalin 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 4 1666

The Most Expensive Warplane in American History Is Too Dangerous to Fly and Just Caught Fire (Again) 4 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 6 2389

Predatory Capitalism and the System's Denial in the Face of Truth 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1669

Sixty Five Million Left out of July 4 Celebration 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1744

Norfolk (VA) homeless shelter suspends programs 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1784

Not War on Poverty but War on the Poor: Washington’s Real Foreign Policy Aims 0 unhappycamper Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 1648

Generational poverty the exception, not the rule 2 theHandpuppet Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1925

U.S. mayors tackle the income gap: Goar 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1615

(CO) Collins' answer to homelessness: Ship them out and 'make them work' 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 2329

(CA) Homelessness on rise in beach areas 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1774

Blue Planet et al. Appeal to UN over Detroit Water cut-off to Thousands 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1706

Groups Appeal to UN for 'Humanity' as Detroit Shuts Off Water to Thousands 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1775

AZ schools chief outs himself as anonymous Internet troll who calls poor people ‘lazy pigs’ 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 7 2129

Doing for the Poor and Doing to the Poor 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1752

The homeless people’s handwritten signs that are being turned into fonts 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1778

The New Ground-Based Defense Missiles Cost $40 Billion That We Could Use For A Lot of Other Things. 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1518

IMF cuts U.S. growth outlook, says full employment years off 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1650

The Three Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Poverty 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1916

Let’s try out conservative economic theories on rich people! 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 1870

Just when you thought sequestration was working..... 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1877

After Piketty, is the Study of Economics the Study of Rising Inequality? 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1473

Risk of depression is nearly twice as high for unemployed Americans 5 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 5 2514

Poverty Continued...

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No shortage of info in Detroit bankruptcy 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 0 1634

How Government "Contracting Out" Drives Up Costs, Pushes Down Workers 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 3 1605

What Would Afghan Spending Buy at Home? 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1498

Here's a Little Perspective for You 2 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1830

Climate Change, Economic Inequality Are One Debate, says Sen. Warren 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1643

9 Questions about the 1%, the Unemployed and why the one produces the Other 1 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 1718

Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts 0 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 1 1549

What has meritocracy to do with merit? 3 unhappycamper Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 2016

Poverty? Really? 0 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 8 2468

I Love New York: The Haves and the Have-nots 0 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 2 1743

The US jet fighter that can do it all—maybe (xpost from NSD) 3 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 3 1753

Rep. Paul Ryan targets Poor as his “Signature Issue”, and I do Mean Targets (Cartoon) 0 unhappycamper May 2014 May 2014 8 1948

Gov. Fallin signs bill curbing minimum-wage increases in Oklah 3 yesphan Apr 2014 May 2014 1 1886

25% of Colorado foster kids on psychotropic 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 May 2014 4 1821

Bryan Fischer tells poor people: ‘Kiss the ground’ beneath the richest 1 percent 6 unhappycamper Apr 2014 May 2014 3 2566

Inside San Jose's Tent City 0 gejohnston May 2014 May 2014 2 1875

Homeless man straps GoPro camera to his chest to film his life in tech-heavy San Francisco 5 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 3 2033

These Nine Maps Show How The GOP is Destroying Southern States 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 6 2021

Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 1948

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