Tag: the working poor

Do you have that neighbor who bends your ear about the latest outrage he heard on Fox so-called "news"? Maybe it's a relative who never misses...

Donald Trump has claimed Democrats are “getting nothing done in Congress.”  This, like the other 10,000 he has told, is a lie. Something that frequently gets...

One of the reasons (and there are several) Donald Trump won the White House was his promise not to cut Social Security, Medicare, and...

Well, they did it. Thursday, congressional Republicans passed a non-binding budget resolution that threatens to cut $473 billion from Medicare and $1 trillion from Medicaid so the...

Some 100 Walmart employees have joined a movement to fast for the 15 days leading up to Thanksgiving. They say this is a protest...

Originally published at Poor as Folk and reprinted with permission. The above response is perfect. The author is David Gerrold. As a writer, I appreciate grammar and...

Now we know that Jeb Bush is a typical Republican in one very telling way: He believes the private sector should set the minimum...

?I watched people who couldn't even afford to buy Tylenol for their sick child, and that broke my heart." -?Cyndi Murray, defacto Workers'...

Robin Dickinson -- a family practice physician -- is a woman who experienced the unthinkable; she suffered two strokes that left her unable to...

Dr. Laura Tach of Cornell University analyzed U.S. Census data and used the data to expose the harsh truths about poverty in the U.S. Mother...

In 2010, 46 million people were living in poverty, and a record number of Americans living in extreme poverty are women. We'll let the...