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The state is considering zeroing out funds for CalWORKS family stabilization and job subsidy programs to help balance the budget.
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California’s poverty rate climbed and its working poor grew this spring, says the Public Policy Institute of California. Safety net programs played a major role in poverty rate changes.
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The idea that people in poverty are just lazy people shirking work is severely undercut by research. That includes a new report from the Oregon Center for…
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When a Republican Congress and a Democratic President, Bill Clinton, ended "welfare as we know it," millions of Americans were thrown off the welfare…
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When President Trump slaps tariffs on China and other trading partners, those nations strike back. U.S. farmers find themselves caught in the middle.As…
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The fictional Ebenezer Scrooge said of the world "There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty." We comfort ourselves by thinking, nearly 200 years…
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In most of Oregon's counties, less than half of the children born into low-income families will reach the middle class or beyond as adults. That is one of…
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Peter Edelman has been focused on poverty in America for a very long time. He's one of the two Clinton Administration staffers who resigned in protest…
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Detroit might be the unofficial capital city of the "rust belt," battered by decades of deindustrialization and decay. That's why people can find real…
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Talk of revolution breaks over the American consciousness in waves every so often, maybe more often just before and after elections. Yes! Magazine…
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In theory, America is the land of opportunity: anyone can do anything, and we are not a country of strong class lines. That's the theory. The recent…
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The word itself has a creepy sound: EVICTED. And the book by that name of Matthew Desmond shows just how wrenching a process eviction can be. He follows…
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Lydia Flores saves gas money by taking a two-hour train ride to and from her cashier job at a Los Angeles supermarket. She tells her teenage sons about…
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Chapters of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul are present all over the country, delivering on the society's goal of helping people in need. St. Vincent…