Instead of buying yachts and gilded trash cans, Wall Street's bailout kings could have spent some of their excess cash alleviating poverty. But what about you and me?
By Frances Kissling May 4, 2009
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Thanks to financial collapse, the widening income gap between rich and poor finally starts to shrink
By Andrew Leonard
September 10, 2009
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My mother's family is out of control. I'd like to rescue one promising member without being swallowed up
By Cary Tennis
August 21, 2009
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He was the only man to win the grand prize on India's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" And though he wasn't a slumdog, he has now devoted his life to helping impoverished children.
By Fiona Ehlers
March 23, 2009
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The struggle to feed America's nouveau needy.
By Nick Turse
March 16, 2009
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This guy in our neighborhood has it rough, but I need to maintain clear boundaries
By Cary Tennis
August 20, 2009
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Now, a 76-year-old California housecleaner has a message for Barack Obama.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
December 3, 2008
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It's not that I don't believe in helping others. I just don't believe in giving money to people on the street.
By Cary Tennis
November 26, 2008
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From a tent city in Reno to a drug dealer's block in Detroit, I saw how Republican rule has hit those living on the American fringe.
By Dan Hoyle
October 13, 2008
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So many things go unasked; so much suffering occurs in silence.
By Cary Tennis
September 12, 2008
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Before Katrina, all I knew about New Orleans was Bourbon Street clichés. Then I got mugged there and fell for a local boy and the glorious city itself.
By Sarah Hepola
August 29, 2008
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I had a master's degree. I had a job. But to feed my three children, I had to swallow my pride and go to a soup kitchen.
By Heather Ryan
August 18, 2008
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The deliciously naughty "Shameless" -- starring a young James McAvoy -- is one of the best comedies ever made about urban poverty.
By Thomas Rogers
July 29, 2008
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L.A. Times editorial about young parenthood slams stigma, upends assumptions.
By Lynn Harris
July 16, 2008
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Family planning can help lead a poor nation to prosperity, but you don't want to miss a crucial demographic window.
By Andrew Leonard
June 20, 2008
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Report: Without improvement of conditions for women and families, peace in Iraq will remain "perilously out of reach."
By Lynn Harris
March 4, 2008
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It's not just tribal hatred that's spurring bloodshed in this stratified African nation.
By Ruthann Richter
January 11, 2008
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Is selling your baby-making ability empowering if it means escaping extreme poverty?
By Tracy Clark-Flory
January 4, 2008
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If even most African-Americans believe the black poor are primarily responsible for their own plight, does that make it true?
By James Hannaham
November 28, 2007
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The World Bank waves its magic wand, and presto -- 200 million poverty-stricken Chinese appear out of nowhere
By Andrew Leonard
November 16, 2007
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I grew up dirt-poor, so I should be happy that my future husband has money, but I'm mad at him instead!
By Cary Tennis
September 24, 2007
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Many are still struggling on the Gulf Coast. But casino and real estate investors are living large -- thanks to Republican officials.
By Tim Shorrock
August 29, 2007
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We do our Christian charity and then drink mimosas at a fancy hotel up the street. And that just seems so wrong!
By Cary Tennis
August 21, 2007
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When I was a kid I learned this obnoxious song, and now I can't get rid of it.
By Cary Tennis
July 30, 2007
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On her confrontation with Ann Coulter, why she backs gay marriage -- and why Edwards is a better choice for women than Hillary Clinton.
By Joan Walsh
July 17, 2007
You can spare a dime to save a kid
A more egalitarian society: The hard way
Can I help my cousin escape her squalor?
Will the real "slumdog millionaire" please stand up?
America's food banks need a bailout
She was an icon of the Great Depression
Hard times at the bottom of the Bush economy
Why I love the city that brutalized me
Our cupboard was bare
Television without shame
The roots of Kenya's upheaval
Fantasies in black and white
Hurricane recovery, Republican-style
The Salon Interview: Elizabeth Edwards
Glenn Greenwald
War Room