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  1. What a Revived Poor People’s Campaign Needs to Do in the Trump Era North Carolina NAACP President, Reverend William J. Barber, 52, poses for a portrait in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday, January 21, 2016. Barber is a vocal spokesman against the State of North Carolina's controversial voter identification law. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2017 … In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and his allies started the Poor People’s Campaign, a movement meant to improve the lives of low-income Americans. But King was assassinated a few months before its political actions officially kicked off, and the Continue reading
  2. The Minimum Wage Doesn’t Apply to Everyone
    7 Jul 2013 … Nearly two million working Americans make even less than the minimum because of various exemptions. Continue reading
  3. Climate Change, Fossil Fuels Are Hurting Our Kids A child in an area affected by a drought in the southern outskirts of Tegucigalpa on April 22, 2016. (Photo by Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2016 … Children suffer the most from fossil-fuel burning. Fossil-fuel combustion and associated air pollution and carbon dioxide (CO2) is the root cause of much of children’s ill health today, as well as their uncertain future. There are strong scientific arguments, as Continue reading
  4. What Keeping Oil in the Ground Can Do for Economic Inequality SolarCraft workers Craig Powell (L) and Edwin Neal install solar panels on the roof of a home on February 26, 2015 in San Rafael, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2016 … Our lifestyle is inextricably linked to fossil fuels. We pay the industry to heat our homes and power our cars. Though driving might be optional where public transit is available, heat is not during harsh winters. We know about the Continue reading
  5. A Wealthy Capitalist on Why Money Doesn’t Trickle Down A worker in McDonald near Wall St. hands a hash brown to a customer. (Credit: Charina Nadura)
    9 Sep 2014 … The fundamental law of capitalism is: When workers have more money, businesses have more customers. Continue reading
  6. Rise Up or Die FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, a mountaintop removal mining site at Kayford Mountain, W.Va. with Coal River Mountain, left, in the background. Environmental activists gained more momentum this year than in the past decade against the destructive, uniquely Appalachian form of strip mining known as mountaintop removal. But they have yet to mobilize the millions of supporters they want. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner, File)
    5 May 2013 … This post originally appeared at Truthdig. Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones” — the first areas Continue reading
  7. Families Matter Family matters
    6 Jun 1992 … Bill Moyers examines why America has become an unfriendly culture for children, and explores some of the practical steps needed to create a more hospitable social climate for families. The program also visits parents in San Diego who are struggling Continue reading
  8. Helping Children Eat & Eat Well Family using the Feeding America program
    6 Jun 2013 … See ways you can help children in your community get the nutritious food they need. Continue reading
  9. A. Philip Randolph Was Right: ‘We Will Need To Continue Demonstrations’
    4 Apr 2014 … The legendary activist had ideas we should remember today. Continue reading
  10. Katherine Newman on the Economic Downturn; Big Bucks for Political Ads Katherine Newman (Photo: Robin Holland)
    1 Jan 2008 … The sociologist discusses how individual Americans are affected by the global economy crisis. Plus, a critical look at spending on political TV ads. Continue reading