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  • Inequality
    Infuriating Facts About Our Middle-Class Wealth
    November 4, 2014
    | Paul Buchheit
    Be prepared to be outraged unless you're one of 85 people who own half the world.
  • Inequality
    People Really Do Want the Media to Cover Poverty
    November 3, 2014
    | Karin Kamp
    We asked our audience what kind of coverage of poverty issues they were interested in and received over 2,000 responses.
  • Civil Liberties
    How Voter-ID Laws Affect Women of Color
    November 3, 2014
    | Tracy Sturdivant
    For women in the low-wage workforce — approximately two-thirds of whom are women of color — the time and cost of acquiring a photo ID are real barriers.
  • Activism
    A Bold New Drive to Recast the War on Want
    November 3, 2014
    | Sam Pizzigati
    An ambitious new global campaign declares that we’ll only make real progress against economic inequality if we confront the concentration of wealth at the top.
  • Democracy & Government
    Republicans Tried to Suppress the Black Vote in North Carolina. It's Not Working.
    November 3, 2014
    | Erika Eichelberger
    Thousands more African-Americans have already turned out to vote this year than in 2010. Here's how Democrats are doing it.
  • Does America Really Believe in Second Chances?
    October 31, 2014
    | Jeremy Haile
    In America, we don’t just punish people for being poor, in some cases, we punish them for being punished.
  • Inequality
    Grim Numbers from the 2014 Global Wealth Report
    October 29, 2014
    | Paul Buchheit
    Global inequality, like global warming, is a disease that may be too far along to ever be cured.
  • Activism
    The Waltons Keep Getting Richer While Wal-Mart Workers Barely Scrape By
    October 17, 2014
    | Charina Nadura
    Workers from the big box chain held a protest in New York City and Washington, DC, on Thursday to ask for a "living wage" and consistent full-time work.
  • How America Punishes People for Being Poor
    October 15, 2014
    | Rebecca Vallas
    If we are truly interested in building an America that is defined by opportunity, we must commit to policies that support rather than impede upward mobility.
  • War & Peace
    Critics to Obama: 'Draconian Cuts' Have Been to Public Services, Not War
    October 10, 2014
    | Sarah Lazare
    The president slams cuts to military spending, which could be a signal of further escalation in the Middle East.


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