Poverty
Lower income? Trump and Ben Carson want to raise your rent
June 7, 2018For Shannon Brown and her daughter, raising HUD rents could mean homelessness.
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Barber: The rejected ‘are the cornerstones who can rebuild America’
June 4, 2018The New Poor People’s Campaign is putting the fights against poverty, racism and war on the front burner across the nation.
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New Poor Peoples Campaign to kick off with D.C. rally
May 2, 2018“People should not live in or die from poverty in the richest nation ever to exist."
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‘The Souls of Poor Folk’: Saving the soul of U.S. democracy
April 13, 2018The report is not intended to remain on the shelf as a passive record of injustices. Rather, it is a tool for combating damning myths about poverty and organizing struggle.
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‘Woe unto those who legislate evil’: New Poor People’s Campaign launches
April 10, 2018Organizers plan weeks of peaceful civil disobedience.
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