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  1. No Excuse for Hungry Students
    4 Apr 2014 … If we hope to improve educational outcomes, we need to demand policies that ensure that students can come to class well-fed and ready to learn. Continue reading
  2. New Stats Show Another Lost Year of “Recovery” for 99% of U.S. Households FILE - A man who did not wish to be identified, who lost his job two months ago after being hurt on the job, works to collect money for his family on a Miami street corner. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)
    9 Sep 2013 … The news is that there's really no news, despite another year when the economy was supposed to be recovering. Continue reading
  3. Where “Compassionate Conservatism” Falls Apart Frankie Tisdale, a Brooklyn-based fast-food worker at home with his children. He joined the global protests for a higher minimum wage for fast-food workers in May 2014. (Neha Tara Mehta/Moyers & Company)
    7 Jul 2014 … Joshua Holland points out some conservative myths raised in this week's interview, and debunks them. Continue reading
  4. Why Is a Senate Democrat Agreeing to Another $8 Billion in Food Stamp Cuts?
    12 Dec 2013 … While Obama described his vision for an economy defined by mobility, Senator Debbie Stabenow brokered a deal for at least another $8 billion in SNAP cuts. Continue reading
  5. Interview Transcript: Frances Moore Lappé On Why She’s Reinventing Herself Lappé addresses a crowd gathered for the Democracy Spring mobilization in Washington, DC. (Photo: Democracy Spring)
    11 Nov 2016 … Frances Moore Lappé, founder of the Small Planet Institute, has been a leader on questions of food and sustainability since the 1970s, when she published her groundbreaking book, Diet for a Small Planet. But, as she described in a recent Continue reading
  6. How Populists Like Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Racism https://www.flickr.com/photos/evandagan/19816882994/in/photolist-x9uKKV-x8WUsc-xecZmN-whXSeA-xa5tmQ-x8pZ9f-x8qd29-x6Rsms-wRG8tx-x6RJ6J-wRxsH3-wRxN6S-x9b9nv-x8qukm-wc9GUs-x6R2uJ-x9Ju84-wca8rJ-wRGipV-wRxPxY-wRyVKh-x9bVgP-x9b4jK-x9aV6a-wc9YLY-wRxvQ3-x9Hfk6-wRyqGs-x6RmGS-wcihKM-x6RNeU-wRy1Mm-wRzb1j-x8qg9w-x6RaNh-wRyNXu-wciKvv-wcadzQ-x6RRxY-wcjbJ6-wc9t89-x8oH9S-wRG46V-wRFMDT-x9bAwp-wciUfV-wRxCSj-wcjr8M-wRxM87-x9JA8R
    1 Jan 2016 … Bernie Sanders’s remarkable popularity going into the Iowa caucus shows that economic populism is ascendant on the left. And yet the notable whiteness of his followers forces an uncomfortable question about this emerging progressive coalition. It’s been 50 years since Continue reading
  7. Why We Need a Universal Basic Income Fast food worker strikes in New York City, July 2013. (Photo by Annette Bernhardt/ flickr CC 2.0)
    9 Sep 2017 … As Labor Day approached this year, I awaited the lip service of Republicans praising “job creators” and business owners. I knew full well there was no chance they’d honor the common laborer — the people who feed, house and transport Continue reading
  8. The Older Americans Act and US Seniors Social worker Roberta Marzano with Caring People Alliance speaks with seniors at the Fels South Philadelphia Community Center in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. In light of Pennsylvania's six-week-old budget stalemate, Arlene Bell, the president and CEO of Caring People Alliance told her several hundred employees that this Friday's payroll would be slashed by more than half to keep the 77-year-old nonprofit's doors open to the children and elderly it serves. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    6 Jun 2013 … Because of sequestration, millions of dollars will be cut from the Great Society-era Older Americans Act during a time when our seniors can least afford it. Continue reading
  9. Immokalee Workers Deliver on ‘Freedom From Want’ Farmworkers pick tomatoes at Taylor & Fulton Tomatoes in this March 30, 2006 file photo, in Immokalee, Fla. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)
    10 Oct 2013 … Fearless farmworkers show us the powerful potential of grassroots groups to agitate for change. Continue reading
  10. Protect and Strengthen Medicare and Medicaid Programs for Another 50 Years
    1 Jan 2015 … The government health care programs turn 50 this year. One advocate for the elderly argues that rising health care costs mean that strengthening and improving them is more important than ever. Continue reading