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000,000,000.00 1 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 2703
Here's the Latest GOP Assault On Food Stamps: Requiring a Photo ID to Buy Food 3 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 4 1930
A simple test for conservative poverty proposals 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 4 1748
Where $300 Million Of Our Money Went Wednesday - Hint: Not Education - Which Was Still Way Cheaper T 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1584
Louie Gohmert: I became a congressman to stop single moms from getting welfare checks 4 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 2401
Stars, Wonks Focus on the Fact That One in Three Americans Lives at or Near Poverty 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 1523
The True Enemy Is Cronyism 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1461
America declared an ‘unconditional war on poverty’ 50 years ago, but you’d never know it 2 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1837
(military) Sequestration continues, but cuts not as deep 0 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1717
Holiday in Austerity Land: 1.3 Million Americans Lose Jobless Benefits 0 unhappycamper Dec 2013 Dec 2013 2 1699
More Hunger for the Poorest Americans 1 unhappycamper Dec 2013 Dec 2013 5 2066
Cruelty, Corporations, Congress, and Christmas: Unhappy Holidays for the Poor & Unemployed 0 unhappycamper Dec 2013 Dec 2013 2 1625
The Senate Is Abandoning The Unemployed. 2 unhappycamper Dec 2013 Dec 2013 4 1895
Congress cuts Food Stamps, maintains Estate Tax Loophole worth $100 bn to the Rich 3 unhappycamper Dec 2013 Dec 2013 3 1843
Invisible Child - Girl in the Shadows: Dasani’s Homeless Life 0 GladRagDahl Dec 2013 Dec 2013 2 2415
Here We Go Again 0 unhappycamper Dec 2013 Dec 2013 7 1799
Food Stamps Cut Just In Time For Thanksgiving 2 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 3 1917
The Insanity of Our Food Policy 0 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 7 1841
30% unemployment and soup lines? Na. 4 3feetofsnow Aug 2012 Nov 2013 1 3343
Cut in Food Stamps Forces Hard Choices on Poor 1 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 9 2266
Food Stamps Are Affordable; Corporate Welfare Is Not 0 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 6 2068
Food stamp cuts are ideological, not fiscal: Republicans make the poor pay to balance the budget 1 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 4 1801
San Diego getting futuristic ($5~7 billion dollar) destroyer (xpost from Veterans) 0 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 1781
U.S. food banks struggle to meet new demand caused by food stamp cuts 2 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 12 2161
What does a $36 cut in food stamps look like on the kitchen table? 3 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 16 3167
Oct29: The Coming Food Stamp Cut Will Hit 900,000 Veterans 3 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 8 2140
Scrooge Republicans prefer Pentagon White Elephants to Food Stamps for Poor Children 6 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 16 3001
Ed Schultz blasts House GOP for kicking the poor ‘right in the teeth’ with food cuts 2 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 8 2047
'Catastrophic': Congressional Apathy to Push Millions of Nation's Poor into Deeper Hunger 2 unhappycamper Nov 2013 Nov 2013 7 1954
Still Dancing Around the First Amendment 1 unhappycamper Oct 2013 Oct 2013 5 1815

Poverty Continued...

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"In Their Shoes" Stories of the homeless. 0 GreenPartyVoter Oct 2013 Oct 2013 2 1838
PA Gov. Corbett Unveils Plan to Restrict Medicaid, Use Funds for Private Insurance [VIDEO] 0 Counterpoint PA Sep 2013 Sep 2013 1 1868
New PA Budget: Reverse Robin Hood PA GOP Robs From the Poor to Give to the Rich [VIDEO] 0 Counterpoint PA Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 1849
Federal Cuts to Food Assistance to Increase Hunger in PA as Farmers Markets Access Expands [VIDEO] 2 Counterpoint PA Aug 2013 Aug 2013 0 2084
2.7 Million Children Under the Age of 18 Have a Parent in Prison or Jail-WE NEED REFORM NOW! 0 MarkLaw Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1757
The Insidiousness of Unchecked Capitalism 2 JamesSchacht Feb 2013 Aug 2013 0 2382
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, 4 BillyRibs May 2013 May 2013 19 4035
Disgusting! America has found many ways to capitalize on poverty, this has to be the vilest! 4 socialsecurityisAAA May 2013 May 2013 10 3217
Poverty solved! 1 Riftaxe May 2013 May 2013 2 2244
Putting a Face on Welfare Spat 1 question everything Oct 2012 Apr 2013 6 2820
Meanwhile, we just had our Gas shut off... 15 FirstLight Mar 2013 Apr 2013 13 5729
Poverty only exists (Poll) 0 Riftaxe Mar 2013 Mar 2013 2 1960
The Insidiousness of Unchecked Capitalism (Continued) 2 JamesSchacht Feb 2013 Feb 2013 1 2425
4 things.. 0 otherone Feb 2013 Feb 2013 3 2124
Petition to Obama for humanitarian aid 0 undeterred Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 2045
Almost 2 months since a post in this forum 1 Riftaxe Dec 2012 Dec 2012 0 2176
X-post: What about the huge stinkin' elephant in the room? 2 GreenPartyVoter Nov 2012 Dec 2012 1 2334
Starting a thread for poverty activists ... 3 mntleo2 May 2011 Sep 2012 3 2432
Fighting Poverty, Armed With Violins 5 groovedaddy Feb 2012 Sep 2012 3 3053
The 90-s are calling "Behold the Welfare Queen!" 1 eilen Sep 2012 Sep 2012 10 2642
From FB: Dial-up warning 0 GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 Sep 2012 10 2513
Anyone have advice on getting healthcare? 7 RedRocco May 2012 Aug 2012 1 4437
Maybe our world needs soup lines and 30% unemployment. 7 3feetofsnow Aug 2012 Aug 2012 4 3125
Well America - How's that NAFTA and Deregulation doing for ya? 1 in 2 Americans now Poor or Low 6 Yooperman Dec 2011 Jul 2012 9 4420
Homeless Students Top One Million, U.S. Says, Leaving Advocates 'Horrified' 1 Stuart G Jun 2012 Jun 2012 3 2309
Contrary to CW at DU, The UNC Center on Poverty, Work & Opportunity is not dead 2 unc70 Apr 2012 Apr 2012 5 2786
Half of All Americans Living In Poverty or Close to It 2 Modern School Apr 2012 Apr 2012 9 3098
Florida Wasted $10,000’s Trying to Bust Poor People 2 Modern School Apr 2012 Apr 2012 6 2818
"More women vets are homeless, but housing scarce" 0 GreenPartyVoter Apr 2012 Apr 2012 1 2132
America Eats Its Young (And Some Of Its Old) 1 Modern School Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 3004

Poverty Continued...

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One in five American children is growing up in poverty today. 3 Scuba Dec 2011 Dec 2011 4 2435
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