Friday, July 11, 2025

Tag: poor

2018 update: More evidence that half of Americans are in or...

By any rational definition of poverty, half of our country's households are dealing with it.

50 years after MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign, 2,500+ arrested over 6...

"We’ve invited the people to speak for themselves, because I think it’s time for a revolution."

House passes farm bill – ‘rewards mega-agribusinesses and Wall Street,’ not...

"The GOP Farm Bill is a disaster for people and the planet."

Missing in action

The poor remain missing in action in our American world, but not in my mind. Not in me.

Infographic: Why normal people can’t afford a house

The U.S. is better at subsidizing wealthy people than low-income people.

A Wall Street sin tax

It's time to put the Wall Street tax back on the table.

Goons in Gucci

The richest, most powerful, most privileged people in our land are intentionally savaging the well-being of America's majority and aggressively suppressing the democratic rights that make America, America.

Today’s Poor People’s Campaign: Too important not to criticize

Provided, of course, today’s PPC attacks the bipartisan disease.

The kindly 87-year-old man who took all the school kids’ lunch...

There seems to be no corporate recognition of the shameful act of taking decades of societal largesse and then doing everything possible to avoid paying for any of it.

A quiet conspiracy of billionaires

For decades, the Koch brothers have led a secret coup for the billionaire class.

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A new far-right American party?

Elon Musk has disrupted Silicon Valley, the electric car industry, and the U.S. government. What is his next target: democracy?

Melting glaciers could lead to more frequent and explosive volcanic eruptions: Study

The process—already seen in Iceland—makes volcanic eruptions more frequent and powerful, according to new research conducted in the Chilean Andes.

The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

Israeli minister proposes forced confinement of all Palestinians in Gaza amid global war crime...

Defense Minister Israel Katz unveils plan to imprison entire Gazan population in a guarded camp as human rights groups warn of ethnic cleansing.

First, a massive Medicaid attack, then come the midterms, then Republican annihilation

Is this country under attack by an authoritarian enemy?