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This Week in Poverty: Congress Turns Its Back on Rural America

By Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

Kansas, and other rural states and communities, are experiencing a harsh blow to early childhood education due to recent sequester cuts.

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26 Members of Congress to Live Off Food Stamp Budget to Protest Cuts

By Rebecca Leber / Think Progress

Last Week in Poverty: Denying a Head Start in Washington State

By Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

The Most Dishonest Words in American Politics: 'Right to Work'

By Steven Wishnia / AlterNet

The 4 Plagues: Getting a Handle on the Coming Apocalypse

By Don Hazen / AlterNet

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More Evidence That America's Middle Class Is Sliding Toward the Third World

6 Facts About Hunger That Demonstrate the Shameful Excesses of American Capitalism

"If Money Were No Object" - Behind Our Obsession With Powerball

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It's No Coincidence that the Public Education and Poverty Crises are Happening at the Same Time

David Sirota / Salon

The Middle Class Faces Extinction—So Does the American Dream

Stewart Lansley / Los Angeles Review of Books

Last Week in Poverty: Taking On Sallie Mae and the Cost of Education

Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

4 Major Ways the Rich Pile On and Exploit the Rest of Us For More Money and Profit

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Every Native American Child Left Behind: Sequester Guts Indian Education

Tanya Lee / New American Media

Last Week in Poverty: Homeowners Take the Foreclosure Fight to the DOJ

Greg Kaufmann / The Nation

Get Apocalyptic - The Case for the New Radical

Robert Jensen / YES! Magazine

The Real Numbers: Half of America in Poverty -- and It's Creeping Upward

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

"If Money Were No Object" - Behind Our Obsession With Powerball

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

The New Crime of Eating While Homeless (Hard Times, USA)

Jim Hightower / Other Words

How America's Retirement Crisis Is Crushing the Hopes of a Generation of Young People

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Elderly Man Allegedly Dies in Court Fighting Wells Fargo 'Wrongful' Foreclosure

Matt Reynolds / Courthouse News

Is Cutthroat Capitalism Pushing a Growing Number of Baby Boomers to Suicide?

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families

Robert Kuttner / Knopf Publishing

Soda Industry Cashes In on Govt. Food Assistance Programs to Tune of $4 Bilion a Year

Stan Cox / AlterNet

Casinos Are Booming Thanks to State Governments' Need to Exploit Gambling Addicts for Revenue

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

4 Ways the Payday Loan Industry Sucks Billions From Local Economies (Hard Times USA)

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Cruel Country: Debtors Prisons Are Punishing the Poor Across America

Bill Berkowitz / AlterNet

It's All Too Easy to Get Fired in America: In 49 of 50 States, You Can Be Fired for Any Reason

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Epidemic That’s Sweeping America

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Pilots and Professors Barely Scraping By? 9 Surprising Jobs That Pay a Pittance

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Why We Still Have a Massive Homelessness Problem (Hard Times USA)

Paul Boden / AlterNet

How Being Poor in America Shaped Every Part of My Life and Forced Me to Live on the Streets (Hard Times, USA)

Lee Stringer / AlterNet

Black America Is Living Through a Great Economic Depression -- What's Obama Going to Do About It?

Isaiah J. Poole / Campaign for America's Future

The Southern State Fast Becoming Ayn Rand's Vision of Paradise

Les Leopold / AlterNet

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