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Current rules for SSI recipients make it difficult to get financial help from friends and family.
The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?
The I-81 project, completed in 1968—and Syracuse remains one of the most segregated cities in the country, with the highest concentration of poverty among communities of color, and the highest rates of lead poisoning in children. This was by design.
The growing solidarity between unions and the LGBTQ+ community is key component of the revitalization of the labor movement.
These two efforts build on the success of the federal Child Tax Credit in reducing child poverty and improving outcomes for children in the near and long term and are important tools for advancing equity.
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California’s tech industry cannot escape its original sins.
Democratic Congressmembers Pramila Jayapal and Barbara Lee have introduced a resolution called the Third Reconstruction, to end poverty in the United States by addressing systemic racism, economic and public health inequity, militarism, other issues.
A feel-good HGTV show sweeps a Southern town’s racist past, and gentrified present, under the rug.
Most unhoused people are from in state and desire to find housing, while Black and older people are disproportionately affected
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