California may be objectively the best state in the union (do not email me), but it has a lot of problems: Wildfires,…
New Orleans is home to more than 1,300 homeless people. Everybody has a story.
New preliminary research from the USDA comes to a completely unsurprising conclusion: adding work requirements to SNAP…
Cory Booker, New Jersey’s least corrupt senator, has a penchant for faux-deep Instagram bullshit, but in the grand…
As if the world needed any more discouraging news, Brazilians have elected a pro-military fascist, Jair Bolsonaro, as…
A signature Republican proposal is the idea of adding work requirements to social programs like SNAP (food stamps) and…
Continuing its efforts to target some of society’s most vulnerable people, the Trump administration announced Saturday…
A new study by the Urban Institute published Tuesday found that 40 percent of Americans can’t meet at least one basic…
The Big Easy can be hard. New Orleans has more than 1,300 homeless residents. They can tell you how it is.
Documents obtained by Foreign Policy and the nonprofit crisis journalism website Coda Story show that the Trump…
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I’d love to have a kid and fulfill my sole biological purpose on this planet, I…
The ACLU of North Carolina, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice have slapped…
For many Americans, the rent is already too damn high, and skyrocketing housing costs are all the more devastating for…
Finland, a civilized nation near the top of the world, has decided to end its experiment providing a basic income to…
Did you know that poor people who receive healthcare through Medicaid routinely get stripped of their coverage if they…
Electronic dance musician Moby has finally weighed in on whether programs for poor people should be more or less…
Four hours west of Albuquerque, over the mud brown desert hills, past the impossibly expansive golden plains strewn…
The Trump administration does not want to force cash poor families to eat pre-boxed meal rations after all. It just…
Last week, Congress passed a two-year budget deal to avoid the world’s tiniest shutdown. In it, Democrats got some non-d…
The budget proposal the Trump administration released on Monday is a lengthy collection of moral horrors, but one…
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