I am a progressive, and I identify with leftist politics. I want Medicare for all, free higher education for everyone, Social Security caps lifted
Category: Poverty
Coming next from Republicans: Cigarette smoking is good for your health
Republicans have made an art form of trying to turn back the clock. I can’t help but wonder what’s next on their agenda. Could
Poverty, obesity and malnutrition: myth vs. reality
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you are familiar with first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move program to combat childhood obesity. You are
How poor do you have to be to qualify for the safety net in 2012?
Mitt Romney says he’s not worried about the poorest people in America, because they have a safety net. President Obama didn’t even mention poverty
Komen Foundation defunds Planned Parenthood
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the famous breast cancer charity, recently announced privately to Planned Parenthood that it will stop funding the organization
Can Occupy learn from the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign?
Most people know that when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he was in Memphis to help striking sanitation workers.
U.S. at bottom of heap in social justice rankings
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organization of 34 countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. All
Is concern about the diminishing middle class causing us to forget the poor?
Out of sight, out of mind. That’s been a major problem for poor people in the United States. When John F. Kennedy was a
You’re kidding: City favors Christmas tree over Occupiers?
It’s possible that the biggest obstacle to justice is the kindness and generosity of charity. No example can better illustrate this than St. Louis