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  • Washington’s Millionaire Boyz Club
    January 10, 2014
    | Michael Winship
    As Congress cuts programs that help the poorest Americans, a new study shows that, for the first time, the majority of its legislators are millionaires.
  • Morning Reads: COINTELPRO Burglars Revealed; Stewart on Climate and Cold Weather
    January 7, 2014
    A roundup of stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Morning Reads: Anti-Gay 'Uprising' in Utah; Another Iraq War?
    January 6, 2014
    A roundup of stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Morning Reads: Religious Right Enters GOP Civil War; Calls for Snowden's Pardon
    January 2, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Crushing the Long-Term Unemployed
    December 19, 2013
    Long-term unemployed workers will lose federal benefits shortly after Christmas. What’s happened in North Carolina since July is an indication of what will happen nationwide, and it's not pretty.
  • A Cruel and Dysfunctional Budget Deal
    December 11, 2013
    | John Nichols
    The trouble with making “functional” government the great aspiration of America is that a smoothly operating Congress is not necessarily moral, humane or even economically smart.
  • Benefits Don't Discourage People from Finding Work
    December 4, 2013
    | Joshua Holland
    With Congress poised to pull a lifeline from 1.3 million Americans, a study shows that the common justification is wrong.
  • How to Donate Food or Volunteer at a Food Bank
    November 26, 2013
    Millions of Americans are struggling as Congress continues to cut the safety net. Here's what you can do to help.
  • The Long-Term Unemployment Trap Could Get Worse
    November 20, 2013
    | John Light
    House Republicans are balking at renewing long-term unemployment insurance. But more austerity could be devastating for the recovery.
  • Five Things You Might Have Missed on 'Poverty Day'
    September 27, 2013
    | Greg Kaufmann
    The annual release of the Census poverty data is the one day the mainstream media will discuss poverty. But here are five other important findings you might have missed.


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