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  1. This Week in Poverty: Cutting Poverty in Half in Ryan’s Wisconsin
    10 Oct 2012 … Paul Ryan may not have a plan for reducing poverty, but advocates in his home state have devised a plan to reduce poverty over 50 percent. Continue reading
  2. This Week in Poverty: What We Talk About When We Talk About Poverty President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney participate in the presidential debate, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. October 2012 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    10 Oct 2012 … Here’s a twist: in the second presidential debate, one candidate used the word “poverty” without saying anything about poverty; the other didn’t use the word at all but managed to speak a fair amount about it. Continue reading
  3. It’s Not Just Climate Change Anymore. Meet the Right-Wing Poverty Deniers. Low-wage workers, many in the fast-food industry, join with supporters in front of a New York City McDonald's to demand a minimum wage of $15 an hour. Home care workers, and employees at Walmart and fast food restaurants say that the current minimum is not a living wage. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2016 … On June 12, I joined C-SPAN’s Washington Journal for a discussion on the House GOP poverty plan released earlier in the week. My conservative counterpart on the show — Robert Rector of the right-wing Heritage Foundation — made his views Continue reading
  4. Twisting the Phrase “Culture of Poverty” Photo credit: Lauren Feeney
    3 Mar 2012 … Author Barbara Ehrenreich says poverty's not a cultural aberration -- it's simply a shortage of money. Continue reading
  5. I Told Paul Ryan What It’s Like to Live in Poverty. Here’s What Happened Next. Tianna Gaines-Turner, board chair of Witnesses to Hunger, speaks during the launch of Bread for the World Institute's 2012 Hunger Report at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Nov. 21, 2011. (Photo: Laura Elizabeth Pohl/ flickr CC 2.0)
    6 Jun 2016 … Dear Speaker Ryan, I read that you will roll out your new poverty task force’s proposal tomorrow, and I wonder if you remember me. I testified at one of the hearings you hosted on the War on Poverty two years Continue reading
  6. How Close to Poverty Are You?
    1 Jan 2014 … Fifty years after the War on Poverty began, poverty remains a serious problem. US Census figures show that most urban areas have neighborhoods with high poverty rates. Continue reading
  7. This Week in Poverty: ‘Beating the Drum About Poverty’ (and Obama’s Nomination Speech) The bus for radio co-hosts Tavis Smiley & Cornel West is on the road to Hayward, WI to kick-off 'The Poverty Tour: A Call to Conscience". August 2011. (AP Photo/Earl Gibson III)
    9 Sep 2012 … We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann writes a weekly roundup on the topic, “This Week in Poverty.” Share your thoughts about these must-read stories Continue reading
  8. The Best 2015 Poverty Journalism From Talk Poverty Radio NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 15: Low wage workers, many in the fast-food industry, join with supporters to demand a minimum wage of $15 an hour on April 15, 2015 in New York City. In what organizers are calling the biggest ever mobilization of workers in the U.S., thousands of people took to the streets across the country to stage protests in front of businesses that are paying some of their workers the minimum wage. Home care workers, and employees at Walmart and fast food restaurants say that the current minimum is not a living wage. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2016 … These 20 stories and op-eds drew attention to critical but underreported issues, rebutted persistent myths, shed light on barriers to economic security and mobility, lifted up policy solutions, provided insightful commentary on media coverage of poverty and even served as Continue reading
  9. Five Things You Might Have Missed on ‘Poverty Day’
    9 Sep 2013 … The annual release of the Census poverty data is the one day the mainstream media will discuss poverty. But here are five other important findings you might have missed that week. Continue reading
  10. Anti-Poverty Leaders Respond to Paul Ryan In this June 6, 2014 file photo, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., gestures as he speaks during a gala prior to the start of the Virginia GOP Convention in Roanoke, Va.
    7 Jul 2014 … A diverse set of activists and experts who understand poverty firsthand respond to Paul Ryan's new proposal to address poverty. Continue reading