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The idea that low-wage jobs and jobs at the very bottom dehumanize workers isn't a new one. It launched diatribes from religious figures and political…
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More than one billion people live on a single U.S. dollar a day and almost three times as many live under $2 each day. While the number has dropped…
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Texas is certainly the Lone Star State – but it appears to be composed of two different states. One for the wealthy and the other for the impoverished and…
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What do sitcoms, dramas and reality TV say about poor people? For our yearlong series exploring poverty, NPR's Elizabeth Blair takes a look at the television shows that place the poor center stage.
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Republican Congressman Paul Ryan has a new plan to address poverty. Host Michel Martin talks with commentators Corey Ealons and Ron Christie about it and other political stories of the week.
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Members of the San Antonio Potters Guild have been hard at work for months, creating thousands of bowls to benefit SAMMinistries this weekend.For months…
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"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them" -- Mark Twain.Dr. John Miller, the author of the America's Most…
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Each semester since last summer, the University of Texas Health Science Center has been giving students an extra dose of the real world. Rather than…
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This Saturday, Jan. 18, marks the 50th anniversary of a historic meeting between then-President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the White House. The president and the preacher came together to coordinate efforts to fight the War on Poverty.
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Fifty years ago last night, President Lyndon Baines Johnson called on lawmakers to help him wage a war on poverty. Few would argue that poverty is still a…