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Poverty
November 2018
Featuring Barbara Ehrenreich, Studs Terkel, David Budbill, and more.
November 2018What Little She Had
It is one thing to be bad with money when you have it, and quite another to be bad with it when you don’t. My mother gave away what little she had, mostly because she had been taught that every poor person she met was the Lord in disguise, testing her love.
October 2018
An Embarrassment Of Riches
Les Leopold On Forty Years Of Runaway Inequality
Our economy does not work for all of us. It works for a small handful of elites who are extracting as much wealth from it as they can.
May 2018
Calling Him Back From Layoff
I called a man today. After he said
hello and I said hello came a pause
Being Broke
The kindness of strangers, the vicissitudes of life, the merry-go-round at the mall
May 2018
May 2018
Featuring Richard Wolff, Anuradha Mittal, Ai-jen Poo, and more.
May 2018Sunbeams
May 2018This troubled planet is a place of the most violent contrasts. Those who receive the rewards are totally separate from those who shoulder the burdens. It is not a wise leadership.
One Flight Up
One can die in cleanliness, or one can die in filth. I’m not talking about your soul. At the Prince Hotel — an old Bowery flophouse — the men paid a few dollars a night to live in stalls, four feet wide and six feet deep, with chicken-wire ceilings.
April 2018
Separate And Unequal
Chuck Collins On How Wealth Divides Us
As we divide into affluent and poor enclaves, people’s sense that they share a common destiny withers, replaced by fear, misunderstanding, and class and racial antagonisms.
February 2018
February 2018
Featuring Frances Lefkowitz, Howard Zinn, Jim Ralston, and more.
February 2018
