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Rian Dundon
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May 11, 2018
Photos: Depression-era billboards sold and celebrated the “American way”
Meanwhile, homeless families…
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Nina Renata Aron
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Apr 1, 2018
As one of his final acts, Martin Luther King fought for a basic income for all
With the ‘Poor People’s Campaign,’ King invited all people of color to join the movement
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Aaron Barnhart
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Mar 1, 2018
Kansas locked up more than 5,000 women and girls for having STDs
“The law itself was very, very broad”
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Stephanie Buck
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Jul 27, 2017
The city of Milwaukee tried to collect garbage from the streets, but the working class protested
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Stephanie Buck
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Jun 9, 2017
American colonial governments used to auction off poor families to the lowest bidder
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Apr 27, 2017
Watch: Why do the worst man-made disasters always affect the poorest people the most?
If the company had followed proper safety procedures, this wouldn’t have happened
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Apr 21, 2017
Watch: Poverty Porn Sold Dishwashers on a Cruel 1950s TV Show
It’s hard to watch these women hold their dignity together on ‘Queen for a Day’
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Nina Renata Aron
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Jun 29, 2016
How America’s homeless went from mobile work force to urban blight
Once, they were just individuals with nowhere to live
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