Talking to Homeless People in New Orleans, January 2019
New Orleans is home to more than 1,300 homeless people. Everybody has a story.
SNAP Work Requirements Don't Increase Employment, But They Do Hurt People Who Need the Program Most
New preliminary research from the USDA comes to a completely unsurprising conclusion: adding work requirements to SNAP…
Has Cory Booker Heard Himself Talk?
Cory Booker, New Jersey’s least corrupt senator, has a penchant for faux-deep Instagram bullshit, but in the grand…
Brazilians Elect Far-Right
Extremist Jair Bolsonaro As President
As if the world needed any more discouraging news, Brazilians have elected a pro-military fascist, Jair Bolsonaro, as…
Report: Work Requirements for Social Programs Are Cruel, Useless, Dumb
A signature Republican proposal is the idea of adding work requirements to social programs like SNAP (food stamps) and…
Trump Administration Seeks to Deny Green Cards to Immigrants
Likely to Use Public Aid
Continuing its efforts to target some of society’s most vulnerable people, the Trump administration announced Saturday…
Staggering Number of Americans Can't Meet Basic Needs While Trump Brags About the Economy
A new study by the Urban Institute published Tuesday found that 40 percent of Americans can’t meet at least one basic…
Talking to Homeless People in New Orleans
The Big Easy can be hard. New Orleans has more than 1,300 homeless residents. They can tell you how it is.
The Trump Administration Reportedly Lied to Americans About Domestic Poverty
Documents obtained by Foreign Policy and the nonprofit crisis journalism website Coda Story show that the Trump…
People Say They're Not Having Kids Because It's Insanely Expensive
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Boy, I’d love to have a kid and fulfill my sole biological purpose on this planet, I…
Lawsuit Against North Carolina Shows How the Justice System Keeps Poor People Poor
The ACLU of North Carolina, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice have slapped…
Ben Carson Wants to Triple Poor People's Rent
For many Americans, the rent is already too damn high, and skyrocketing housing costs are all the more devastating for…
Before Basic Income, Fix Capitalism
Finland, a civilized nation near the top of the world, has decided to end its experiment providing a basic income to…
Oh Look, Another Cruel Way the Criminal Justice System Screws Over Poor People
Did you know that poor people who receive healthcare through Medicaid routinely get stripped of their coverage if they…
Why Does My Take Suck So Bad, by Moby
Electronic dance musician Moby has finally weighed in on whether programs for poor people should be more or less…
The Last Great Warriors of the Navajo Nation
Four hours west of Albuquerque, over the mud brown desert hills, past the impossibly expansive golden plains strewn…
White House Reportedly Had a Sinister Ulterior Motive for Rolling Out Its Cruel 'Meal Boxes' Idea
The Trump administration does not want to force cash poor families to eat pre-boxed meal rations after all. It just…
Paul Ryan Assures Fox He's Still Working Hard to Make Life Worse for the Poor and Elderly
Last week, Congress passed a two-year budget deal to avoid the world’s tiniest shutdown. In it, Democrats got some non-d…
One Example of the Dystopian Cruelty at the Heart of Trump's Budget
The budget proposal the Trump administration released on Monday is a lengthy collection of moral horrors, but one…
Jeff Sessions Quietly Made it Harder for Poor People to Get Basic Legal Assistance
The Department of Justice has “effectively shuttered” an office created during the Obama administration to expand…