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Homeless man straps GoPro camera to his chest to film his life in tech-heavy San Francisco 5 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 3 2716

These Nine Maps Show How The GOP is Destroying Southern States 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 6 2423

Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 2339

Even As Jobs Numbers Seem Better... 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 1959

8 Plutocrats out-earned 3.6 mn Working Poor & 7 Other Headlines You won’t see in MSM 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 4 2287

Zero Tolerance and Broken Windows Policing Criminalizes Homeless and Poor People ... and Can Kill Th 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 4 1968

The Gitmo kids are alright (the Native American kids slightly less so) 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 2056

Citi to Help Unemployed Youth? Oh, the Irony! 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 1875

Anti-poverty zone leaves out L.A.'s poorest 1 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 3 2110

The Devil and Doug LaMalfa (xpost frm Congress) 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 1829

Probation Privateers Prey on the Poor 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 1860

Life-coaching on skid row starts with scrapping the textbook 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 1909

Jesse Ventura slams minimum wage foes: Pure capitalism robbed us blind 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 7 2280

Why We Need A 10.4 Million Jobs Plan 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 1843

US Wealth Inequality In One Chilling Video (Must See) 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 8872

Poverty among black children ‘should be considered a national crisis’ 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 5 9167

Senate Democrats Threaten Repeated Votes On Minimum Wage (xpost from Congress) 2 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 4 2757

CHARTS: The Amazing Wealth Surge For The Top 0.1 Percent (xpost frm Economy) 0 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 1 9785

It's Time To Put America First 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 6 2649

Opinion: Evaluating teachers based on student performance is 'punitive measure that demoralizes teac 1 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 3 2228

Walmart Admits that its Business Model Requires Employees to Depend on Food Stamps 2 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 5 2857

New Alabama food truck regulations prevent local churches from feeding the homeless 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 4 2799

Ryan Unsuited to Lead ‘Adult Conversation’ About Poverty 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 21 10271

Abby Huntsman wants to lead her own generation into poverty 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 7 3284

Five Myths About Panhandlers 2 xchrom Mar 2014 Mar 2014 1 8673

What It's Like to Panhandle 0 xchrom Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 2033

Reaganomics is a cancer, and we've reached its terminal stage 4 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 17 3859

Money in Hyping the Generational War Story 0 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 1843

Typical Minimum-Wage Earners Aren’t Poor, But They’re Not Quite Middle Class 0 antiquie Mar 2014 Mar 2014 1 2600

Reince Priebus: Paul Ryan demonized ‘inner cities’ to help them 1 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 0 2051

Poverty Continued...

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John Boehner's ready to pop an orange aneurysm over states "cheating" to preserve food stamps 3 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 8 2725

So Many Defense Budgets; So Little Clear Direction 0 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 0 1918

Rep. Paul Ryan misused data to show poverty programs don’t work, say economists he cited 5 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 15 3499

The War on Democracy: Art Pope and the Rich Bullies 0 unhappycamper Mar 2014 Mar 2014 3 1960

Fox News guest tells Hannity: ‘Overfed’ non-whites use food stamps as a ‘fat pill’ 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 2326

70,000 Fewer Poor Families Got Help With Rent Last Year Thanks To Budget Cuts 0 xchrom Feb 2014 Feb 2014 6 2180

How Govt. Hides the Poor: Formula for Measuring Poverty Dates to When a Loaf of Bread Cost 22 Cents 3 xchrom Feb 2014 Feb 2014 10 2406

Help For Families Who Can’t Afford Childcare Hits Decade Low 0 xchrom Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 1974

Hidden History: The War on Poverty at 50 0 xchrom Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 2015

Frances Fox Piven | Extreme Poverty Has Been Used to Divide and Terrify Working People for Centuries 1 xchrom Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 2116

When a Kid's Bedroom Isn't a Room 2 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 12 4225

There's a Broad Consensus Among Activists Across the Country — Is Social Change Around the Corner? 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 2060

How a tiny airport town near Seattle led the new movement against low wages (xpost frm LM) 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 5 1992

5 of the worst states to grow up poor 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 2388

Playing Politics with People’s Lives 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 2248

How Do We Make The Fears of the 1% Come True? 2 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 2402

Meet the Billionaires Using Their Immense Wealth to Make Life Miserable for Ordinary Americans 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 2040

CBO report: Minimum wage hikes would kill 500,000 jobs but lift 900,000 out of poverty 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 2013

How to Reduce the Deficit the Right Way 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 2132

America's "We" Problem 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 2021

Report sheds light on poor working mothers in Texas 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 2148

What's for dinner? The farm bill has a big impact 2 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 2669

The Farm Bill Makes The Koch Brothers Richer While Destroying the Clean Water Act 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 2493

(CO) More El Paso County families eligible for special tax credit, experts say 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 2122

Social Darwinism and Fox Republicans 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 1999

Congress passes bill cutting farmer payments and SNAP benefits 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 2121

Fox’s Tucker Carlson: Poor people get ‘consumed with envy’ of the 1 percent 6 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 3032

Try #2: I need a new frame of reference (and your opinion) 8 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Feb 2014 10 5544

I need a new frame of reference (and your opinion) 25 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 21 7439

House passes bill cutting $8 billion from ‘food stamps’ program 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 4 1917

Poverty Continued...

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What a Country!: A Love Letter to America 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 2028

New 5-year farm bill would cut subsidies while slashing food stamps benefits 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 2070

Tech billionaire compares self to Jews under the Nazis, fears pogrom 3 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 2580

The new face of food stamps: working-age Americans 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 7 2118

Without the state, western democracies will remain a paradise for predators 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 5 1794

Working poor now majority of food stamp recipients — with college educated among fastest growing gro 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 11 2236

To Most People, the American Dream Is, in Fact, Just a Dream 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 6 1858

5 Right-Wing Myths About Raising the Minimum Wage, Debunked 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 2259

The Human Cost of Income Inequality in America 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 2003

Slow Progress On Long-Term Unemployment Benefits As 1.6 Million Miss Out 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1834

Cloud-Dwellers: Class War Victors Get Higher on the Hog 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1883

Work in the US but under Conditions of a Developing Country 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1835

Pew survey shows sharp partisan divide on combating inequality 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1790

A question for DUers who frequent the Poverty forum 2 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 0 2272

8 Phony GOP Solutions for Poverty That Will Only Bring More Economic Pain 2 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 2566

The myth of the deserving rich 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 2033

James Melton: The war on poverty is winnable, if we change tactics 3 LuckyTheDog Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 2494

Pope Francis tells the business elite gathered in Davos to help those ‘still living in dire poverty 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1822

You’d be surprised at how poor the new ‘middle class’ is in the developing world (xpost from Labor) 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1702

LTTE: $12b for an aircraft carrier? Just imagine what that money could buy 3 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 6 2589

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