poverty This 1970 documentary shows dirty old New York at its meanest and most decrepit Mark Frauenfelder
tacklehomelessness A beautiful new village for people dealing with homelessness has popped up beneath a bridge in West Oakland Thom Dunn
givedirectly How UBI is helping farmers deal with poverty and pandemic life at the same time Thom Dunn
criminalizing poverty Bernie Sanders drops truths on the Senate floor about the Coronavirus Stimulus Package Thom Dunn
food stamps Trump to kick 700,000 Americans off food stamps just in time for holiday cruelty display Xeni Jardin
War on the poor Minnesota high school threw away hot lunches for students with over $15 of lunch debt Mark Frauenfelder
cherry hill NJ school district bans indebted students from prom and field trips, refuses offer to pay off lunch debt Cory Doctorow
mobile internet Pew: 26% of US adults who earn under $30K/year are 'smartphone only' internet users Xeni Jardin
medicaid expansion Obamacare study: 25% decline in home delinquencies among newly insured poor people Cory Doctorow
poverty UN poverty envoy calls UK poverty a "political choice" that inflicted "great misery" Cory Doctorow
everyone shrugs back at atlas Extreme poverty is on the decline, extreme inequality is on the rise Cory Doctorow
