Hard Times USA

Poverty Expert Peter Edelman Explains How Low Wages and Racial Politics Line the Pockets of the Rich

By Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

To help America's neediest, we've got to raise tax rates on corporations and wealthy Americans back to the levels they paid in 2001.

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Tent Cities Are Cropping Up in the Same Place Where Tech Millionaires Are Being Minted

By Lauren Feeney, Cameron Hickey / BillMoyers.com

Ohio Is Illegally Throwing Poor People in Jail For Owing Money

By Annie-Rose Strasser / Think Progress

Disturbing Facts About State Lotteries: They Prey on the Poor and Trash the Economy, and Political Leaders Don't Care (Hard Times USA)

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota?

By Les Leopold / AlterNet

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Hard Times USA

Right-Wingers Lying About Food Stamps

Ed Kilgore / The Washington Monthly

Defying Michigan Voters, Gov. Rick Snyder Takes Over Detroit

Harriet Rowan / PR Watch

Supreme Court Likely to Strike Down DOMA -- But Maybe for the Wrong Reasons

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress

Are the Chicago School Closings Racist?

Samantha Winslow / Labor Notes

AlterNet Comics: Matt Davies on Sequestration

Matt Davies / AlterNet

Walmart's Death Grip on Groceries Is Making Life Worse for Millions of People (Hard Times USA)

Stacy Mitchell / AlterNet

1 in 6 US Kids Has Unemployed or Underemployed Parent

Travis Waldron / Think Progress

Outrageous: David Cay Johnston Explains How Big Corporations Withhold Your Taxes and Then Pocket Them

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Bye, Bye American Dream! U.S. Economic Inequality Is Permanent, Study Finds

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Mortgage Company Tried to Take Home of 75-Year-Old Blind Woman Over $49 She Already Paid

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

CVS to Penalize Workers Who Don't Fork Over Personal Health Information

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Hidden Victim of Austerity: State Universities That Educate Our Children

Peter Temin / AlterNet

Atlanta Housing Activists Retake House For Senior Evicted After Needless Foreclosure

Shabnam Bashiri / AlterNet

What Recovery? Across America, People in Distressed Cities and Small Towns Face Economic Catastrophe

Louis Ferleger, Jacob M. Magid / AlterNet

The 21st-Century Version of Slavery Is Widespread In America

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Restaurant Horror Show: How Servers Are Abused

Matt Frassica / Salon.com

With Inequality Spiraling Out of Control It's Insane to Consider Cutting Social Security

Sarah Anderson / AlterNet

Gutting Social Security: It Isn't Just an Issue for Old Folks

Scott Klinger / AlterNet

Feminism Should be Celebrated, Not Junked -- One Man's Opinion

Don Hazen / AlterNet

New Study Finds the Wealthy Are Different

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Welcome to Ayn Rand Planet: Why the Rich Prosper from the Stock Market While We Get Screwed

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Raising 5 Kids in a Tiny Camper? The Atrocious Ways America Treats Poor Women and Children

Diane Nilan / AlterNet

Why People React Differently to Panhandlers (Hard Times USA)

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Teachers Make Handy Scapegoats, But Spiraling Inequality Is Really What Ails Our Education System

Joshua Holland, Linda Darling-Hammond / AlterNet

5 Things That Piss Me Off About People Who've Never Known What It's Like to be Poor

Tracy Moore / Jezebel

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