One single mother of three children, ages 4, 10, and 20 have recently become homeless. She felt compelled to leave an unsafe apartment building where drug dealers were actively selling drugs around her children.
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Our cities need investment, not invasion
Trump plans to send troops to Chicago, repeating failed tactics of the past. Without tackling poverty, housing, and jobs, military presence won’t solve crime.
Posted inNational
How prison affects Black men’s mental health long after they’ve been released
New research sheds light on the long-term mental health struggles Black men face after incarceration, from PTSD to isolation and economic hardship.
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Amid budget pressure, low-income Minnesotans get school-supply relief
In Minnesota, poverty-fighting organizations are feverishly trying to help low-income families get the items they need for a successful school year.
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MN groups brainstorm ways to address poverty disparities
‘We need to get over the belief that there will always be a percentage of the population that chooses to live in poverty.’
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‘We’re scraping by’: hunger concerns spur calls for higher SNAP eligibility
‘This is an opportunity to help families who are on the cliff.’
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After 25 years of ‘ending welfare’, poor people far worse off
The ratio of African American households who own their own home has dropped to its lowest number, 42%, in more than 50 years.
Posted inOpinion
People-first economics
“It’s time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle up, not the top-down.”—President Joe Biden In recent weeks the Biden administration has unveiled two major spending proposals, including an infrastructure plan and the American Families Plan. These plans have a combined price tag of roughly $4 trillion over the next 10 […]
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A year later: the pandemic’s impact on poverty
While jobs numbers are expected to improve as a result of government aid programs, there are still a considerable number of people who have been unemployed for the long-term and the job outlook is bleak for many.
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We need to reduce child poverty in America
The Child Tax Credit is the second most-widely claimed individual tax break, following the deduction for charitable contributions.
Posted inHealth + Wellness
Health is about more than just health care
Structural racism is tied to disparities in health among African American and American Indian people in Minnesota when compared to White Minnesotans.
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Jeremiah Program aims to break the cycle of poverty for families
The Jeremiah Program, a nonprofit that works to lift single parents and their children out of poverty.
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VIDEO: Homelessness in Minnesota
A closer look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the growing problem of homelessness in Minnesota.
Posted inOpinion
Facing uncertainty, it’s important we remember to exercise compassion
What we risk losing sight of when faced with the data each day, is that those numbers aren’t just statistics, rather they are individual lives.
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U.S. poverty is not ordained
We could eliminate poverty in this country with sensible policy.
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Housing discrimination ‘injures but does not bruise’
As I recently reflected on some of the topics this column covered in the past year, I was immediately reminded of the flagrant discrimination and disparities that persist around housing both here in the Twin Cities and throughout the rest of America.
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Incarcerating Black women for the crime of poverty
The nonprofit organization Prison Policy Initiative has reported that almost two out of every three women in jail have not been convicted of a crime.
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How digital media is putting a human face on poverty
Americans continue to view people living in poverty with either pity or scorn.
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We must stop criminalizing the poor
Beginning in the 1990s, the [United States] adopted a set of criminal justice strategies that punish poor people for their poverty.
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Changing the rigged game that perpetuates inequality
In essence, the concept of the “iron cage” is that people are forced and confined to their social condition based on the “teleological” agenda of a government or bureaucracy.