Poverty Discussion Forum - Democratic Underground Forums

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NYC Anti-Homeless Streets, Hostile Architecture, Housing Crisis🔻Tackling Homelessness in Europe 3 appalachiablue Friday Friday 5 534

Has anyone here used not-for-profit UPSOLVE for filing bankruptcy chapter 7? 3 Jacson6 Oct 18 Oct 18 0 383

Fear of homelessness 7 XanaDUer2 Aug 31 Sep 1 6 796

Mich: Homeless Woman Living Inside Rooftop Store Sign, with Computer, Coffee Maker 5 appalachiablue May 2024 May 2024 12 1396

I am in the grips of a student loan nightmare. I know many are receiving good news on this 2 theophilus Mar 2024 May 2024 2 983

Funding For Haiti, if you can. 🇭🇹 1 clouds Apr 2024 Apr 2024 0 704

My first poem 0 kozar Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 518

Miracle...we're actually going to a concert 14 XanaDUer2 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 20 1273

Being poor and FOMO 15 XanaDUer2 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 1345

Financial fears as disabled person 5 XanaDUer2 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1335

What happens when a motel becomes home 20 rug Nov 2016 Feb 2024 6 10357

Tackling Homelessness in Costa Mesa, OC, CA 0 SleeplessinSoCal Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 1195

Jon Pie: 'Lifestyle Choices' 🇬🇧 7 appalachiablue Nov 2023 Nov 2023 13 2133

Destitution: UK, Jonathan Pie 🇬🇧 6 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 10 2180

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America 1 bucolic_frolic Aug 2023 Aug 2023 6 5719

Why is the working Poor forced into more poverty 1 Waterguy Jul 2023 Jul 2023 7 2175

city paints anti-homeless bench with colors of the rainbow 0 BlueWaveNeverEnd Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 2900

MEDICAID Cuts Start In Spring, Est 8M Will Lose Eligibility: How To Shop For New Health Ins Plans -P 0 appalachiablue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 6084

Paying off the mortgage tomorrow! Yea! 23 Chainfire Apr 2022 Dec 2022 10 3481

Cousin, 62. Diagnosed with degenerating spinal disks. Receives some public assistance. 9 3Hotdogs Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 6773

LAHSA Explains Workers Throwing Food Away Intended For Homeless Individuals 0 Anon-C May 2022 May 2022 4 5406

Guns Instead of Butter 1 unhappycamper Feb 2016 Feb 2021 2 4705

Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about starving while working at billion-dollar food 5 unhappycamper Feb 2016 Jul 2020 11 25214

Living on the Streets of L.A. 2 Newest Reality Feb 2020 Jun 2020 3 7661

Why Is No One Talking About the GOP’s Plan to Send Millions of Disabled Americans Into Poverty? 11 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Jun 2020 11 16319

Sad this group has no recent posts 6 I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2019 Jun 2020 5 3957

Mass Poor People's Assembly & Moral March on Washington June 20th, 0 BigmanPigman Jun 2020 Jun 2020 4 9710

Guardian UK: The worst part of being poor: watching your dog die when you can't afford to help 3 inanna Apr 2020 May 2020 3 6745

The Cost of Child Poverty with Lenette Azzi-Lessing 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2020 Feb 2020 1 5898

What are the Causes of Institutionally Created Poverty? 5 BlueDog22 Feb 2018 Feb 2020 1 6172

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Three Mothers Occupy an empty house in Oakland for 2 months are evicted with armored vehicles 1 Beringia Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 3455

Rev. William Barber on the Political Power of Poor People: 'We Have to Change Our Whole Narrative' 5 littlemissmartypants Dec 2019 Dec 2019 10 4117

The poisoned poor: In poor countries man-made toxic pollutants spread like cancer. Here’s why you sh 2 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Nov 2019 4 3981

Kitsap Rescue Mission set to lose permit to operate overnight shelter 0 icymist Sep 2019 Sep 2019 0 2480

Have been reading up about living in an RV or buying a tiny home 12 Beringia Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 6235

Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America 2 littlemissmartypants Nov 2018 Nov 2018 9 3658

60%interest on payday loans in Ohio. xpost 0 irisblue Jul 2018 Jul 2018 2 2068

Airbnb is making the housing crunch much worse 0 Addison May 2018 May 2018 7 3422

Grocery stores worry about Trump's pullback on SNAP (food stamps) 3 left-of-center2012 Apr 2018 Apr 2018 0 5473

This message was self-deleted by its author 21 OhNo-Really Feb 2018 Feb 2018 57 11647

Poverty Is Both a Political and a Moral Choice Made By the Powerful 2 inanna Dec 2017 Feb 2018 7 3565

Sharing about a pet resource 0 discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2017 Dec 2017 2 2166

I would like suggestions on how to get out of debt 35 otherone Nov 2015 Aug 2017 5 19911

Mick Mulvaney's Steel Workers 2 srcameron Apr 2017 Apr 2017 0 6070

Iowa to LOWER minimum wage 4 appleannie1943 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 5 5407

Today was my last day working for poverty wages. 39 malokvale77 Dec 2015 Feb 2017 62 12657

ALICE WALTON IS WORTH 21 BILLION DOLLARS 11 tomkoop Jun 2012 Jul 2016 6 7802

Is the F-35 our Death Star? 4 unhappycamper Feb 2016 May 2016 6 3028

x post from: Snarkoleptic::economy::omaha steve labour group:restaurant+bankcards stiff workers 0 w0nderer May 2016 May 2016 1 2891

Big Money in Politics Doesn’t Just Drive Inequality. It Drives War. 2 unhappycamper Apr 2016 Apr 2016 6 2836

X post from n2doc in GD : Unique Community Kitchen is set up like a restaurant... 0 w0nderer Mar 2016 Mar 2016 2 3249

for notice:: xposted from freakingdj's "$2.13 Minimum Wage - are you fucking kidding me" 0 w0nderer Feb 2016 Feb 2016 2 2811

SES and Education 1 aswanson Feb 2016 Feb 2016 1 2662

Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex 0 unhappycamper Feb 2016 Feb 2016 3 3642

Utah 0 w0nderer Feb 2016 Feb 2016 1 1971

x-post via ohiochick::: Over 1 million face loss of food stamps over work requirements 0 w0nderer Jan 2016 Jan 2016 3 3119

Oh my god 3 rusty quoin Dec 2015 Jan 2016 7 3142

When John Edwards, warts and all, spoke of the two Americas 4 nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 Dec 2015 6 3545

Talk About Inequality 3 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Dec 2015 5 3096

The Homeless Raise Issues of Discrimination in Pacific Beach 4 nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 Dec 2015 4 3407

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Two stories from the weekend, how do you connect these two causes? 0 nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 Dec 2015 1 2468

A Dog “Was Poisoned by Either a Manager or One of the Workers.” George Ibarra 1 nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 Dec 2015 5 3369

We Need To Talk 1 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 6 2271

Proposed Constitutional Amendment, Limiting Idle Wealth 1 Al Carroll Oct 2015 Oct 2015 6 4060

debtors jail Mississippi (workaround for authorities) xpost workingpoor from two articles 0 w0nderer Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 3007

Five years on, it's still the pits for Chilean miners 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 3 2292

Nearly 800 million people suffering from hunger worldwide: report 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2471

I hope i'm not pissing someone off 3 w0nderer Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 2705

It costs you $43 every time you wait for the doctor 2 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 3 3834

For the children 1 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 4 2078

'We were paying to poison our kids': lead in Michigan city's water hits children 1 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 8 3393

Will: Keeping Navy shipshape should be on candidates' radar (xpost from NSD) 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 2436

“I’m on welfare and so ashamed …” 9 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 20 5195

Tax avoidance by corporations is out out control. The United Nations must step in 1 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 3346

Pope Leaves, Boehner Resigns, Shutdown Looms… 0 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 2255

Protesters call for Treasury official to leave role in Puerto Rico debt crisis 0 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 5 2994

Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014 35 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2015 57 14426

Suck It Up, Proles 4 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 11 3234

Cutting Pentagon pork could fund free childcare in the US 2 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 6 2944

City Council, please seriously address Philly’s LGBT homeless youth problem 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2687

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