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  1. DC Mayor’s Veto of Walmart Wage Bill is a National Outrage An outdoors sign for Walmart is seen in Duarte, Calif. Tuesday, May 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
    9 Sep 2013 … Washington, D.C. mayor Vincent Gray has vetoed a bill that would require large, billion-dollar retailers like Walmart to pay their workers a living age, defined in the bill as at least $12.50 an hour. It is the latest development in Continue reading
  2. Stabenow’s Office Says She is Stamping Out “Food Stamp Fraud” Kevin Concannon, U.S. undersecretary of agriculture, chats with vendor Helen Wise at the State Farmers Market in Raleigh, N.C. in 2012. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)
    12 Dec 2013 … The Democratic senator defends proposed $8-to-$9 billion cuts to SNAP, and poverty advocates respond. Continue reading
  3. Update: Cleaning Up America’s ‘Dirty Secret’ in the Black Belt Watch 'Making Change: Catherine Coleman Flowers'
    9 Sep 2017 … Catherine Coleman Flowers returned to Alabama and discovered what she calls “America’s dirty secret.” The rural county is still mired in poverty and lacking appropriate infrastructure for the majority of its residents. She took on the dire and dirty problem Continue reading
  4. Low-Wage Employers Are the Real ‘Welfare Queens’ Josh Adams, right, chants with other protestors near the corner of Airways Blvd. and Lamar Ave. outside of a McDonalds in Memphis, Tenn. Thursday, May 15, 2014, while demonstrating for a $15 wage and right to form a union without retaliation in the fast food industry. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, William DeShazer)
    10 Oct 2014 … Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour wouldn't only lift millions out of poverty. Continue reading
  5. The Kerner Commission, 40 Years Later
    3 Mar 2008 … Bill and former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris discuss the 40-year-old Kerner Commission Report connecting poverty to violence. Continue reading
  6. “Black Women’s Blueprint” Helps Low-Income Women Get By — Through Bartering Black Women's Blueprint
    9 Sep 2014 … Farah Tanis learned that, of the women in poverty she worked with, 9 out of ten had experienced violence — so she started a bartering network to help them survive. Continue reading
  7. Inequality and the American Child
    12 Dec 2014 … Among developed countries, only Romania has a higher rate of child poverty. That's because America has embraced a policy agenda in recent decades that has caused its economy to become wildly unequal. Continue reading
  8. The Twenties Babe Ruth
    8 Aug 1984 … Conventional wisdom enshrines the 1920s as the decade that roared — a time in which Americans kicked up their heels and went for one long joyride before the Wall Street crash of 1929. BIll Moyers and his guests reveal that Continue reading
  9. Do America’s Hungry Children Matter?
    1 Jan 2015 … In the State of the Union, President Obama didn't mention poverty even though this is the year he promised to end child hunger. Continue reading
  10. As Hate Incidents Rise, Rights Groups Urge Trump to Denounce Bigotry Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, speaks during a press conference in Washington, DC on Nov. 29, 2016. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … Since the election of Donald Trump, an increased number of hate incidents have targeted minority groups in America, and the election results are having a negative impact on America’s schoolchildren, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Continue reading