MLK’s Legacy Includes “Poor People’s Campaign” to Combat Poverty
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KY Gets OK To Require Work From Medicaid Recipients, Most Already Do
From National Public Radio: Poor residents in Kentucky will have to work or do volunteer work if they want to keep their Medicaid benefits after the Trump administration on Friday…
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American households finally earn more than they did in 1999, but poverty and inequality are on the rise
From today’s Los Angeles Times “Business” section by Don Lee: After a long period of plodding economic growth, significant earnings gains over the past two years have finally enabled the…
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What the Poverty Rate Tells Us About the Overall Economy
From yesterday’s NYT “The UpShot” Blog by Jared Bernstein: On Tuesday, the Census Bureau will tell us whether the share of population that’s officially in poverty went up, down or…
Republicans oppose minimum wage, but claim they want to curb poverty?
From the January 10, 2014 New York Times Editorial: A similar dynamic is developing around the drive for a higher minimum wage. In the December jobs report, the average hourly…