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The cost of having children in the U.S. has climbed exponentially since the 1960s.

Nobody in America should be homeless. Nobody in Chicago should be homeless. So, listen up, mister Mayor, and all you Mayor wannabes: What we need now is a homes guarantee: a home for everyone who needs one.

Between 2012 and 2017, DHS spending for gambling addiction declined 20% even as the number of video gambling machines grew dramatically around the state and appropriations increased slightly. The number of people receiving services dropped by 37%

Trump’s plan to end new HIV/AIDS diagnoses by 2030 misses a key element: prevention

Tennessee has lost 10 rural hospitals, creating health care deserts for its poor residents. But, newly elected Republican governor Bill Lee resists Medicaid expansion, and he won in all but one of the counties that have experienced hospital closures.

Defeating Privatization Bill in a Single Day

Sweezy adds a layer of historical analysis to the Comintern’s theory of fascism. He does this by defining it as the product of imperialism, which can only develop in the era of monopoly capitalism.

In July 2017, China told the World Trade Organization it no longer wanted to be the end point for yang laji, or foreign garbage, with the country keen to grapple with its own mountains of waste.

Reproductive rights groups decry Trump's latest announcement, saying it further restricts women's rights.

Anne Champion writes of a woman’s rage upon realizing after a certain election “how much the world/would hate me for being a girl…/how much men could get away with."