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Poverty
March 4, 2014
Mike Konczal
The New GOP Poverty Efforts Are Impractical, Incoherent, and Inhumane
And they'll also put more kids in poverty
March 4, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Paul Ryan's New Report Undermines the Case for His Budget
January 24, 2014
Conor P. Williams
David Brooks Forgot to Do His Research Before Writing About Poverty and Pre-K
January 9, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Rubio Talks Poverty, Says Things That Are Not Totally Crazy
January 8, 2014
Mike Konczal
The War on Poverty Turns 50: Three Lessons for Liberals Today
January 7, 2014
Alec MacGillis
Republicans Discover Poverty. Now What?
It's hard to help the little guy when you hate the safety net
December 4, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
Four Frightening Charts About America's Struggling Lower-Middle Class
November 20, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Paul Ryan Shamelessly Slanders Mitt Romney
Rebranding himself as an anti-poverty crusader, Ryan forgets a few key things he did
October 8, 2013
Michael Kinsley
Walmart Can Solve the Inequality Problem. It Starts With Stickers.
September 17, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Our Economic Security Report Card: Not So Good
August 16, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
The Weekly Standard Accidentally Makes the Case for Food Stamps
August 7, 2013
Alec MacGillis
The Issue That Could Take Down Mitch McConnell
July 24, 2013
Leah Plunkett
The Real Way to Fix Law School: More Lawyers
April 15, 2013
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Jonathan Cohn
The Hell of American Day Care
An investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children
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December 14, 2011
Sebastian Strangio
Is Microfinance Pushing the World’s Poorest Even Deeper Into Poverty?
February 26, 1977
Michael Harrington
Hiding the Other America
July 20, 1974
Michael Harrington
Oversell
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Political equality is a farce and a peril unless there is at least some measure of economic equality.

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