Poverty – Page 24 – People's World

No country for old people

March 16, 2016 By David Bacon

Is there a human right to age in dignity? Some countries think so. Unfortunately, ours isn't one of them.

African-American voters give Clinton a landslide win in South Carolina

February 28, 2016 By Larry Rubin

"In rural areas many poor and minority residents have been neglected for decades and are struggling against nearly impossible odds trying to pull themselves out of poverty."

Flint’s water crisis and the GOP’s class war

January 26, 2016 By Rev. Jesse Jackson

Why did Flint suffer a water catastrophe that now requires that children be treated as if they had been poisoned?

U.S. vultures circle Argentina, demand repayment of odious debt

January 19, 2016 By Emile Schepers

The vulture funds bought up distressed debts from the past for pennies on the dollar; now they are demanding repayment of the whole original value, thus making a killing.

Gun control alone can’t curb violence

January 7, 2016 By Rev. Jesse Jackson

Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness - the dysfunction that comes from poverty.