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Mich: Homeless Woman Living Inside Rooftop Store Sign, with Computer, Coffee Maker 4 appalachiablue Thursday Thursday 9 536

Funding For Haiti, if you can. 🇭🇹 1 clouds Apr 14 Apr 15 0 317

My first poem 0 kozar Apr 10 Apr 10 1 229

I am in the grips of a student loan nightmare. I know many are receiving good news on this 0 theophilus Mar 21 Mar 21 2 456

Miracle...we're actually going to a concert 14 XanaDUer2 Mar 11 Mar 11 20 936

Being poor and FOMO 15 XanaDUer2 Mar 10 Mar 10 7 756

Financial fears as disabled person 5 XanaDUer2 Mar 3 Mar 3 3 1077

Tackling Homelessness in Costa Mesa, OC, CA 0 SleeplessinSoCal Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 991

Jon Pie: 'Lifestyle Choices' 🇬🇧 7 appalachiablue Nov 2023 Nov 2023 13 1922

Destitution: UK, Jonathan Pie 🇬🇧 6 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 10 1963

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America 1 bucolic_frolic Aug 2023 Aug 2023 6 5480

Why is the working Poor forced into more poverty 1 Waterguy Jul 2023 Jul 2023 7 1967

city paints anti-homeless bench with colors of the rainbow 0 BlueWaveNeverEnd Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 2695

MEDICAID Cuts Start In Spring, Est 8M Will Lose Eligibility: How To Shop For New Health Ins Plans -P 0 appalachiablue Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 5910

Cousin, 62. Diagnosed with degenerating spinal disks. Receives some public assistance. 9 3Hotdogs Nov 2022 Nov 2022 3 6471

LAHSA Explains Workers Throwing Food Away Intended For Homeless Individuals 0 Anon-C May 2022 May 2022 4 5246

Paying off the mortgage tomorrow! Yea! 23 Chainfire Apr 2022 Dec 2022 10 3209

Mass Poor People's Assembly & Moral March on Washington June 20th, 0 BigmanPigman Jun 2020 Jun 2020 4 9534

Guardian UK: The worst part of being poor: watching your dog die when you can't afford to help 3 inanna Apr 2020 May 2020 3 6504

The Cost of Child Poverty with Lenette Azzi-Lessing 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2020 Feb 2020 1 5681

Living on the Streets of L.A. 2 Newest Reality Feb 2020 Jun 2020 3 7401

Three Mothers Occupy an empty house in Oakland for 2 months are evicted with armored vehicles 1 Beringia Jan 2020 Jan 2020 3 3226

Sad this group has no recent posts 6 I_UndergroundPanther Dec 2019 Jun 2020 5 3701

Rev. William Barber on the Political Power of Poor People: 'We Have to Change Our Whole Narrative' 5 littlemissmartypants Dec 2019 Dec 2019 10 3927

Kitsap Rescue Mission set to lose permit to operate overnight shelter 0 icymist Sep 2019 Sep 2019 0 2310

Have been reading up about living in an RV or buying a tiny home 12 Beringia Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 6028

Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America 2 littlemissmartypants Nov 2018 Nov 2018 9 3482

60%interest on payday loans in Ohio. xpost 0 irisblue Jul 2018 Jul 2018 2 1880

Airbnb is making the housing crunch much worse 0 Addison May 2018 May 2018 7 3240

Grocery stores worry about Trump's pullback on SNAP (food stamps) 3 left-of-center2012 Apr 2018 Apr 2018 0 5243

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This message was self-deleted by its author 21 OhNo-Really Feb 2018 Feb 2018 57 10789

What are the Causes of Institutionally Created Poverty? 5 BlueDog22 Feb 2018 Feb 2020 1 5928

Poverty Is Both a Political and a Moral Choice Made By the Powerful 2 inanna Dec 2017 Feb 2018 7 3407

Sharing about a pet resource 0 discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2017 Dec 2017 2 1851

Mick Mulvaney's Steel Workers 2 srcameron Apr 2017 Apr 2017 0 5911

Iowa to LOWER minimum wage 4 appleannie1943 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 5 5218

What happens when a motel becomes home 20 rug Nov 2016 Feb 24 6 9683

x post from: Snarkoleptic::economy::omaha steve labour group:restaurant+bankcards stiff workers 0 w0nderer May 2016 May 2016 1 2714

Big Money in Politics Doesn’t Just Drive Inequality. It Drives War. 2 unhappycamper Apr 2016 Apr 2016 6 2702

X post from n2doc in GD : Unique Community Kitchen is set up like a restaurant... 0 w0nderer Mar 2016 Mar 2016 2 3109

Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about starving while working at billion-dollar food 5 unhappycamper Feb 2016 Jul 2020 11 24972

for notice:: xposted from freakingdj's "$2.13 Minimum Wage - are you fucking kidding me" 0 w0nderer Feb 2016 Feb 2016 2 2672

SES and Education 1 aswanson Feb 2016 Feb 2016 1 2500

Is the F-35 our Death Star? 4 unhappycamper Feb 2016 May 2016 6 2878

Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex 0 unhappycamper Feb 2016 Feb 2016 3 3489

Utah 0 w0nderer Feb 2016 Feb 2016 1 1826

Guns Instead of Butter 1 unhappycamper Feb 2016 Feb 2021 2 4513

x-post via ohiochick::: Over 1 million face loss of food stamps over work requirements 0 w0nderer Jan 2016 Jan 2016 3 2953

Today was my last day working for poverty wages. 39 malokvale77 Dec 2015 Feb 2017 62 12172

Oh my god 3 rusty quoin Dec 2015 Jan 2016 7 2915

When John Edwards, warts and all, spoke of the two Americas 4 nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 Dec 2015 6 3386

The Homeless Raise Issues of Discrimination in Pacific Beach 4 nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 Dec 2015 4 3228

Two stories from the weekend, how do you connect these two causes? 0 nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 Dec 2015 1 2290

A Dog “Was Poisoned by Either a Manager or One of the Workers.” George Ibarra 1 nadinbrzezinski Dec 2015 Dec 2015 5 3191

I would like suggestions on how to get out of debt 35 otherone Nov 2015 Aug 2017 5 16484

We Need To Talk 1 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 6 2093

Proposed Constitutional Amendment, Limiting Idle Wealth 1 Al Carroll Oct 2015 Oct 2015 6 3842

debtors jail Mississippi (workaround for authorities) xpost workingpoor from two articles 0 w0nderer Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 2868

Talk About Inequality 3 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Dec 2015 5 2917

Five years on, it's still the pits for Chilean miners 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 3 2143

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Nearly 800 million people suffering from hunger worldwide: report 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2306

I hope i'm not pissing someone off 3 w0nderer Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 2504

It costs you $43 every time you wait for the doctor 2 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 3 3680

For the children 1 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 4 1915

'We were paying to poison our kids': lead in Michigan city's water hits children 1 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 8 3226

Will: Keeping Navy shipshape should be on candidates' radar (xpost from NSD) 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 2287

Tax avoidance by corporations is out out control. The United Nations must step in 1 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 3 3194

Pope Leaves, Boehner Resigns, Shutdown Looms… 0 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 0 2089

Protesters call for Treasury official to leave role in Puerto Rico debt crisis 0 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 5 2832

Suck It Up, Proles 4 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 11 3023

“I’m on welfare and so ashamed …” 9 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 20 4976

Cutting Pentagon pork could fund free childcare in the US 2 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 6 2785

City Council, please seriously address Philly’s LGBT homeless youth problem 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2521

Most 2016 GOP Presidential Candidates Would Push Seniors Into Poverty By Cutting Social Security 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 5 2375

How an Apartment Tower in Atlanta Is Makes Life a Living Hell for Its Poor Residents 1 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 8 3321

How can cities successfully enforce a higher minimum wage? 1 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2042

Racialized Poverty in America has Nearly Doubled in 21st Century 0 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 2415

Game of Groans: How focus on Trump Taunts hides GOP war on Middle Class, Workers 1 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 5 2495

The poisoned poor: In poor countries man-made toxic pollutants spread like cancer. Here’s why you sh 2 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Nov 2019 4 3790

I work at the US Senate. I shouldn’t have to dance at strip clubs to feed my son 8 unhappycamper Aug 2015 Aug 2015 34 4659

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