To stop the GOP War on Poor People, we need a moral movement. We need good jobs that pay a living wage.
We need an accurate assessment of who is poor based on adequate housing, health care, water, sanitation, child care, sufficient wages and how poverty goes hand in hand with social forces such as racism, militarism and environmental destruction.
POTUS war on those struggling to make it, regardless of income. His budget makes massive cuts to Medicaid, food stamps, federal student loans, children’s health insurance, disability insurance and a whole lot more.
A new study finds that people walking in affluent neighborhoods around Boston were less likely to support a tax on the wealthy after seeing a poor person.
Nearly 2 million low-income families in the U.S. affected by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) face high or catastrophic financial burdens each year due to out-of-pocket costs, a new study in JAMA Cardiology finds.
Among the elderly, women and black people are more likely to be admitted to the hospital from exposure to wildfire smoke than men and people of other races.
Raising the minimum wage results in lower teen birth rates, especially among white and Hispanic adolescents, a new study suggests.
Elected leaders nationwide are continually debating the benefits and consequences of raising the minimum wage in cities, states and at the federal level. Arguments often focus on how local business could be impacted and whether workers really would earn more money, considering companies might cut employees’ hours to control costs.
Decades ago, if someone had trouble affording a medical procedure or paying a child’s hospital bill, friends and community members sometimes organized bake sales, car washes or other fundraisers to help out.
