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  • Inequality
    Inequality Is Probably Costing You a Lot of Money
    September 20, 2017
    | Nick Buffie
    Just like global warming, economic inequality is slowly but surely destroying the livelihoods of many Americans.
  • Inequality
    I Told Paul Ryan What It’s Like to Live in Poverty
    June 7, 2016
    | Tianna Gaines-Turner
    People who are struggling to keep their families going continue to be shut out of the conversation in Washington.
  • Writers and Activists React to Bill's Conversation With Arthur Brooks
    July 29, 2014
    Bill's interview with the president of the conservative American Enterprise Institute provoked responses from writers and activists on the left.
  • Inequality
    Why "Can't Make Ends Meet" Trumps "Poverty"
    July 25, 2014
    | Karin Kamp
    New research has found that the language used to describe struggling Americans is turning off the very people it's supposed to help.
  • Workers Need Food Stamps More than Kids, Elderly
    January 27, 2014
    For the first time, working-age Americans make up a majority of food stamp recipients.
  • Let's Put Americans Back to Work
    February 8, 2013 | Group Think
    The author of Winner-Take-All Politics admits the road back from the crisis that Wall Street helped create is a long one, but we must speed up our pace.
  • A Wake-Up Call on Housing and Homelessness
    December 2, 2012
    | Greg Kaufmann
    The Nation's Greg Kaufmann reports that, as the weather grows colder and the fiscal cliff approaches, Americans living in affordable housing are worried about how the budget negotiations in Congress will affect them.
  • History
    We Could Use Lincoln's Empathy in Washington Today
    February 6, 2009 | Updated February 14, 2015 | Bill Moyers Journal
    In an essay, Bill Moyers reflects on how ordinary Americans struggling to get by mattered to our 16th president.
  • Inequality
    'A Question of Fairness: Winners and Losers,' Rewriting the Rules, and Tax Justice.
    November 21, 2003 | NOW
    A three-part investigation into the roots of growing US economic inequality, and the often-forgotten human toll of government policies that favor corporations over individuals.


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