The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Red Cross Launches Emergency Food Aid In U.K. for First Time Since WWII
Amid harsh welfare cuts, the economic downturn, and with winter fast approaching, the charity has been asked to step in and help Britain's starving families.
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How Taxpayers Subsidize America’s Biggest Employer and Richest Family
Walmart and the Walton family receive tax breaks and taxpayer subsidies estimated at more than $7.8 billion a year – that is enough money to hire 105,000 new public school teachers.
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Congress to America: Eat the Turkey, Starve the Poor
The stimulus gave banks trillions, the military kept its nose in the trough, and the poorest Americans were spared a few billion for food. For a government to encourage the spread of hunger throughout the wealthiest nation is, well, monstrous.
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Thanksgiving Report: Cuts to U.S. Food Programs = Hunger
With $11 billion of food-stamp cuts in place and $40 billion in welfare cuts on the table, charities and religious groups must significantly step up their political campaigning to combat hunger.
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Number Of Homeless Students In United States Hits Record High
More than 1.1 million students in the U.S. were homeless last year, a record high, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Education. Nearly 2 percent of all students in K-12 are now living without homes.
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Video: McDonald's Joins the Socialist Revolution
McDonald's believes that in an economy where labor no longer can meet basic human needs, it is the government's responsibility to support its citizens.
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Oregon Public Workers Win Zero-Concessions Contract through Strike Threat
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber supported attacks on health care, wages and work conditions, but backed down this summer when Service Employees 503, Oregon's largest union, proved organized and ready to wage a statewide strike.
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Pittsburgh Says: Tax Billion-Dollar "Charity" Health Care Business
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is a “$10 billion integrated global health enterprise” with 20 hospitals and 400 clinics in western Pennsylvania. But its status as a “nonprofit charity” makes it tax-exempt, and Pittsburgh is trying to change that.
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I'm a College Graduate Who Had to Go on Food Stamps
I used to view myself as different from and better than people on food stamps. Until I needed them.
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The Republican War on Food Stamps Is a Class War on America
Like many of the nearly 50 million Americans currently living below the poverty line, Bianca Rodriguez makes ends meet by cobbling together food stamps.
