HUD Director Ben Carson, a Trump appointee, recently proposed that rents in subsidized HUD housing be tripled, leaving the poorest households with a mere...
In a story posted on talkpoverty.org, Kristen Arant described how she contemplated suicide because she had no health insurance to help her cope with her opioid addiction. Finally getting Medicaid, she said, literally saved her ...
Cairo, Illinois, this impoverished historic river town located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers has been at the center of the national public ...
On May 13, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, launched 40 days of nonviolent direct action across the country to confront systemic racism, poverty ...
My name is Josh and this is my wife Ashley, “Little Bit.” We’ve been together off and on for the last 12 years. I’ve been out on the street for eight years now. We’ve stuck ...
I am as influenced by the Rastafarians as I am by the Christians. I follow Christ. But I don’t resonate with Western Christian Culture. It’s not my culture. I can appreciate the ...
I’m Lindsey Krantz of Berkeley, homeless. I am a member of ‘First they came for the homeless’ and a class lawsuit member of Sullivan et al. v. City of Berkeley ...
The State will not call this a disaster—the City of Flint has had its share of Toxins, Larger than most Cities. We could smell it, breathe it from G.M. to Buick ...
Over and over, Michigan state government has failed to do what it was designed to do: act on behalf of the people and protect the people. In fact, it has ...
This fight really started with our effort to stop privatization. The District tried to privatize the substitute teacher pool to a temp agency called Goodwill TalentBridge. We defeated ...
This month, the Supreme Court will likely decide the Janus v. AFSCME case that seeks to stop public unions collecting fees from all the employees they’re ...
OK. We're trying to build on the block this summer. They're shutting the schools down in the fall, so all those 8th graders and the entire Robeson High ...
The two issues I see facing West Virginia are poverty and substance abuse, and oftentimes they are related. My motivation for running for office came through ...
Today actually broke my heart. I marched with students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) to a place where the federal fiscal control board signed ...
A debate about what kind of America we want is coming up in many mid-term electoral campaigns. And many first-time candidates are rejecting the “I’m for me and to Hell ...
Neo-Nazis, led by the National Socialist Movement (NSM) out of Michigan, held a white supremacist rally in the small Georgia town of Newnan on April 21. The number of ...
Today a high school was the scene of yet another horrific and despicable parade of violence. Also today 900 high schoolers gathered in Walt Disney Concert ...
On April 13, Comrade Hector Barajas, a decorated U.S. Army paratrooper, was allowed to return to the United States. He participated in a ceremony that ...
Let the truth be told. I, Rev. Edward Pinkney was charged in Berrien County, Michigan with five felony counts of election forgery under Michigan Compiled Law ...
On April 5, 2018 in a joint raid involving ICE, Homeland Security, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division and Tennessee Highway Patrol, 97 workers were arrested at ...
As I watched in horror the situation as it unfolded on national television, I was sick to my stomach at this disgraceful event. Chikesia Clemons was being ...
A major battle against corporate dictatorship and for democracy has been won in Benton Harbor! Rev. Edward Pinkney is free at last! Now, after spending 2-1/2 years ...
The Poor Peoples Campaign for over two years has been organizing around the nation, traveling to cities and townships near and far, to interview impoverished ...
On the eighth anniversary of the BP oil spill, Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who founded a coalition of Louisiana environmental groups, stood in front ...
Everyone knows about Flint. But there’s a lesser-known drinking water crisis in rural California, which predominantly impacts low-income communities ...
Washington D.C. -- At approximately 930pm on June 11th, federal police began evicting poor & homeless from Resurrection City II in Dupont Circle despite ...
The ruling class of this country is creating more laws that convert us into criminals for trying to survive. In fact, the problem is that this country is going through an economic ...
On June 25, a Florida judge issued a massive eviction order to impoverished and desperate families and adults who live in a trailer park on the edge ...
