Poverty in the United States

Laziness isn’t why people are poor. And iPhones aren’t why they lack health care. (March 8, 2017)


Americans Haven’t Been This Poor and Indebted in Decades (January 5, 2018)


Good Jobs Numbers Are Worthless if People Need Multiple Jobs to Survive (June 1, 2018)


Mortgage, Groupon and card debt: how the bottom half bolsters U.S. economy (July 23, 2018)


Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. (September 11, 2018)


How Struggling Dayton, Ohio, Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities (September 11, 2018)


Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common: ‘I see no way out.’ (December 29, 2018)


How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor (January 8, 2019)


McDonald’s Worker to Congress: No One Who Works 2 Jobs Should Have to Be Homeless (February 8, 2019)


U.N. report: With 40M in poverty, U.S. most unequal developed nation (June 22, 2018)


US has regressed to developing nation status, MIT economist warns (April 21, 2017)


Millions of senior citizens can’t afford food — and they’re not all living in poverty (May 19, 2019)


A decade after the recession, 40% of U.S. families still struggling (May 13, 2019)


Senior Hunger Surges As Boomers Swell The Ranks Of The Nation's Elderly (May 29, 2019)


The Nonwhite Working Class (June 16, 2019)


TWITTER: Bernie Sanders: "Our mission is to find a way out of systemic injustice." (June 18, 2019)


'It's totally unfair': Chicago, where the rich live 30 years longer than the poor (June 23, 2019)

Racism in the 21st Century Europe

A black man accused French police of raping him. Police claim it was an accident. (February 11, 2017)


UN accuses Germany of ‘institutional racism and racist stereotyping’ against people of African descent (February 28, 2017)


Brand new Macron, same old colonialism (July 11, 2017)


In Denmark, Harsh New Laws for Immigrant ‘Ghettos' (July 1, 2018)


Refugee drownings 'skyrocket' across Mediterranean as Italy's new far-right government blocks rescue boats (July 14, 2018)


Hundreds of Europeans including firefighters and priests arrested for ‘solidarity’ with refugees, data shows (May 19, 2019)


Jews warned not to wear kippa in public in Germany (May 26, 2019)


Children whitening skin to avoid racial hate crime, charity finds (May 29, 2019)


'Sea Rescues Have Been Criminalized' as German Boat Captain Faces 20 Years in Prison For Saving Refugees (June 11, 2019)


I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on (September 5, 2018)