The Power of the Poor in Trump’s America
In this sick reality of ours, poverty is clearly anything but a marginal experience — and yet, as in the last election, it’s repeatedly minimalized and dismissed in our nation’s politics.
When I read Vance’s book as a person born and raised in Eastern Kentucky myself, something just didn’t seem right.
The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines.
"Until our nation's leaders invest the great riches of this nation in ensuring equal justice for all, beginning with the poor and low-wealth of this nation, we cannot be silent," said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber.
This book argues that the United States must move beyond its current minimalist approach to fighting poverty and adopt a set of policies aimed at the "structural vulnerabilities" in our society that keep people poor.
In the 1960s, more than a third of seniors lived in poverty. Federal programs like Medicare to help the elderly, the situation improved significantly. But last year, the poverty rate for those 65 or older increased, even as it sank for everyone else.
Lifting up poor and working-class people—and our whole economy
Margaret Qualley and her real-life mum Andie MacDowell play mother and daughter in a tender portrait of a young woman struggling to make a life for herself and her child
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