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Convicted of a Crime? Pony Up a 'User Fee.'

In a recession economy, all of us – including government agencies – are doing what we can to make ends meet, and that includes states' legal systems. A new report released by NYU’s Brennan Center for...

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Re-Defining 'Poor' in America

What does it mean to be poor in America? For years, the country has had a fairly firm answer; in 2010, the federal government maintains the poverty line at an income of about $21,750 for a family of...

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Newt Gingrich Proposes Radical Change in Labor Laws

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says we need a radical proposal to "change America's culture of poverty," and put children to work. He advocates allowing kids as young as nine to replace...

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Poverty and the Social Safety Net

Perhaps it was just a poor choice of words on Mitt Romney's part. Flush with victory after his win in the Florida primary, Mitt Romney appeared on CNN yesterday morning and said this: "I'm in this race...

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America's Poor Left Out of Fiscal Cliff Negotiations

With less than three weeks to go, politicians on both sides of the aisle seem as far apart as ever over how to avoid going over the fiscal cliff. In the midst of their considerations, there's a lot of...

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Can You End Homelessness by Providing Homes?

Can you end chronic homelessness by simply giving the homeless homes?In 2005, Utah set out to end chronic homelessness within 10 years by providing each homeless person with an apartment and a social...

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How We Can Abolish Homelessness

Inspired by prominent American abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, who worked for the emancipation of slaves, Philip Mangano is a man on a mission to end homelessness.From 2002- 2009,...

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House GOP Looks to Cut Food Stamps, Increase Military Spending

Citing a need to give the economy a boost and reign in the deficit, House Republicans unveiled their budget yesterday, which calls for huge increases in military spending and big cuts in welfare. Under...

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'Buried in Bureaucracy': A Look at Hart Island, the City's Cemetery

For more than 140 years, Hart Island, part of the Bronx, has served as Potter’s Field for New York, the city cemetery where the indigent, and others, are buried. Covering 101 acres in at the western...

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Occupy Wall Street's Message Doesn't Resonate with All of the 99%

Occupy Wall Street protesters say they represent the 99 percent of the population that’s not wealthy. It’s a big percentage, and includes all kinds of people and income levels. But while Occupy Wall...

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Charities to Play Bail Bondsman Role

Charities will soon be allowed to post bail for the poor and indigent. A new law recently signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo allows charities to be authorized and regulated by the Department of Financial...

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Pope to New York: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor...

Also on the pope's busy schedule in NYC: he is attending an interfaith ceremony at the September Eleventh Memorial and Museum. Later in the afternoon, he'll visit a school in East Harlem - Our Lady...

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Mental depletion complicates financial decisions for the poor

Delores Leonard helps her daughter Erin with her homework at the breakfast table before heading to work at a McDonald’s Restaurant in Chicago. Leonard, a single mother raising two daughters, has been...

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Freedom From Want: FDR's Dream Unrealized as 47 Million Live in Poverty

The 2016 election has brought a lot of noise about the size of the candidates' hands and their bank accounts, contested conventions and unprotected servers.But if you cut through all that bluster and...

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Wealth, Poverty, and The Clinton Welfare Legacy

Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.In July of 1996, President Bill Clinton fulfilled a campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it." At the time more than 13 million people...

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#2: Who Deserves To Be Poor?

UPDATE: Since this series began, OTM has received numerous inquiries from listeners who want to help Carla Scott. If you’d like to donate, she has set up a PayPal account here. Please note that neither...

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A welfare check

This week, Reveal’s bringing you an episode we first aired this summer. With Republicans in full control of the Federal government, there’s a good chance Welfare Reform will be an issue they may take...

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Navigating Holiday Social Situations. Chronicling the Lives of the Working...

Does the thought of family gatherings this holiday season fill you with anxiety? Philip Galanes is here to help! Curator Chrissie Iles discusses the“Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016”...

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Chronicling the Lives of the Working Poor Across America

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist and Columbia Journalism School professor Dale Maharidge crossed the country to chronicle the lives of today's working poor, from farmworkers in southern...

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If you can’t afford a lawyer

If you can’t afford a lawyer, one will be appointed to you – that’s how it’s supposed to work. But in New Orleans, the lawyer in charge of representing poor people accused of crimes is saying no. His...

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Are the Rich Really Less Generous Than the Poor?

A series of academic studies suggest that the wealthy are, to put it bluntly, selfish jerks. It's an easy narrative to swallow — but is it true? A trio of economists set out to test the theory. All it...

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Rubio Threatens Tax Bill With Push For Child Tax Credit

Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentHouse and Senate Republicans forged ahead with their tax bill on Thursday. The plan is to vote on the legislation early next week in order to...

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Getting Racist Ideas Backwards

Underlying much of the media’s fumbled white supremacist coverage is an enduring assumption about where racist ideas comes from: the poor, the uneducated, and the hateful. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the...

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Why We Get the Far Right Wrong

When it comes to covering white supremacists, reporters have been tripping over the same stumbling blocks for at least a century — by treating extremists as too normal and failing to convey the danger...

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