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Advisor to UK Government: Come clean on child poverty failure
May 21, 2012 10:30 AM
by Andrew Grice
From The Independent, May 8, 2012:
"The Government's adviser on social mobility has urged ministers to admit they will miss ...
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Ending Poverty in Our Time
March 16, 2012 1:30 PM
by Derek Flood
Hearing about the injustice and suffering in our world can be overwhelming. The problems seem so insurmountable. Is it really...
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Huffington Post: 8 Facts About Poverty That Will Blow Your Mind
March 16, 2012 1:00 PM
by Sid Mohn
From the HuffPost Chicago blog, March 13, 2012:
"With campaign season in full swing, it seems everyone has a panacea for wha...
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Huffington Post: Millions Of Senior Citizens Can't Afford Basic Living Expenses
March 12, 2012 12:00 PM
by Alexander Eichler
From the Huffington Post, March 2, 2012:
"More than 9 million older Americans can't pay their bills.
"The costs of living ...
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The Poor, the Near Poor, and You
November 29, 2011 12:00 AM
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From the New York Times Editorial section:
"What is it like to be poor? Thankfully, most Americans do not know, at least no...
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US Poverty Rate Climbs to Record 16%, 49.1 million people, under Updated Census Formula
November 08, 2011 4:00 PM
by Amelia Van Iwaarden
On Monday, November 7, 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau released updated poverty statistics based on a "Supplemental Poverty Mea...
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On Turning Poverty Into an American Crime: "Nickeled and Dimed" Ten Years Later
October 18, 2011 12:00 AM
by Amelia Van Iwaarden
In her bestseller, Nickeled and Dimed : On (Not) Getting By in America , Barbara Ehrenreich reported her (undercover) experi...
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Women Hit Harder By Recession Than Men, Institute for Women's Policy Research Reports
October 14, 2011 12:00 AM
by Amelia Van Iwaarden
The Institute for Women's Policy Research has released the results of their IWPR/Rockefeller Survey of Economic Security, an ...
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