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  1. Inside Atlantic City’s Boom and Bust New casinos in neighboring states have drawn many visitors away from Atlantic City, New Jersey, and in 2014 some 8,000 people were laid off when four of the city's major casinos closed. The closures brought Atlantic City's unemployment rate to more than 11 percent, double the national average. The mass unemployment produced the highest foreclosure rate of any metropolitan US area, with 1 out of 113 homes in foreclosure in Atlantic County in 2015. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2016 … We're marking the end of summer by sharing a series our colleagues at PBS have done on an iconic summertime town: Atlantic City, New Jersey. As part of "Chasing the Dream," a public media initiative covering poverty and opportunity in America, NJTV took Continue reading
  2. Measuring Income Inequality Along the NYC Subway
    4 Apr 2013 … Last week, we took a look at the growing inequality in Silicon Valley with five charts that show the hollowing out of the middle class and growing poverty rates in that region. And today, we came across this smart chart Continue reading
  3. A Day in the Life: America’s Hungry Children
    1 Jan 2015 … To show the reality of hunger, mothers photograph their daily experiences living in poverty. Continue reading
  4. Replay Our Live Chat with Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
    7 Jul 2012 … Join the journalist and graphic artist today at 2pm est for a live chat about journalism, art, and poverty. Submit your questions now. Continue reading
  5. More Welfare for Wall Street: One in Three Bank Tellers Need Public Assistance
    12 Dec 2013 … New study finds that we're subsidizing banks' profits by keeping their low-wage workforce out of poverty. Continue reading
  6. Inequality in Silicon Valley, in Five Charts
    4 Apr 2013 … In recent years, the economy of California’s Silicon Valley has skyrocketed. But as high-tech companies like Google, Facebook and Apple mint millionaires by the dozen, the middle class is hollowing out and poverty rates are growing. Here are five charts Continue reading
  7. Poets Lorna Dee Cervantes & Shirley Geok-lin Lim Lorna Dee Cervantes won the American Book Award for her first book of poems. Still from 'Sounds of Poetry'
    10 Oct 1999 … Born to poverty in two different parts of the world, Lorna Dee Cervantes and Shirley Geok-lin Lim embraced poetry early on. In this episode of Sounds of Poetry, they tell Bill how poetry saved them. Continue reading
  8. How Activists Helped Turn the Tide on Childhood Obesity
    12 Dec 2012 … Childhood obesity has long been considered one of the nation’s most intractable problems, complicated by issues like race, poverty and a culture that to many seems more concerned with corporate profits than children’s health. About 17 percent of American children Continue reading
  9. Talking Back to Hate Speech, Explained. Students hold sign reading "with liberty, justice and respect for all."
    12 Dec 2016 … The outbreak of racist, sexist and xenophobic harassment across the US is alarming. People have reported almost 900 instances of hate speech since Nov. 8, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Many are on high alert, wondering how they Continue reading
  10. Celebrities, European Leaders Push for Final Deal on Wall Street Tax A still from the Robin Hood Tax YouTube video featuring actor Bill Nighy, among others.
    2 Feb 2014 … The video, set in 2024, shows European bankers looking back at the passage of a tax that brought "serious money to the fight against extreme poverty." Continue reading