Hard Times USA

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

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

As Florida continues to search for their Powerball winner, some people are still fantasizing about what they would do if they won.

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

By Jim Hightower / Other Words

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

By Matt Reynolds / Courthouse News

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

By Les Leopold / AlterNet

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

By Robert Kuttner / Knopf Publishing

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

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

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Hard Times USA

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

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

Adele M. Stan / AlterNet

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

Lauren Feeney, Cameron Hickey / BillMoyers.com

Ohio Is Illegally Throwing Poor People in Jail For Owing Money

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)

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

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

Les Leopold / AlterNet

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

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