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 ...
In Minnesota, poverty-fighting organizations are feverishly trying to help low-income families get the items they need for a successful school ...
'We need to get over the belief that there will always be a percentage of the population that chooses to ...
'This is an opportunity to help families who are on the cliff.'
The ratio of African American households who own their own home has dropped to its lowest number, 42%, in more ...
“It’s time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle up, not the top-down.”—President Joe Biden ...
While jobs numbers are expected to improve as a result of government aid programs, there are still a considerable number ...
The Child Tax Credit is the second most-widely claimed individual tax break, following the deduction for charitable contributions.
Structural racism is tied to disparities in health among African American and American Indian people in Minnesota when compared to ...
The Jeremiah Program, a nonprofit that works to lift single parents and their children out of poverty.
A closer look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the growing problem of homelessness in Minnesota.
What we risk losing sight of when faced with the data each day, is that those numbers aren’t just statistics, ...
We could eliminate poverty in this country with sensible policy.
As I recently reflected on some of the topics this column covered in the past year, I was immediately reminded ...
The nonprofit organization Prison Policy Initiative has reported that almost two out of every three women in jail have not ...
Americans continue to view people living in poverty with either pity or scorn.
Beginning in the 1990s, the adopted a set of criminal justice strategies that punish poor people for their poverty.
In essence, the concept of the “iron cage” is that people are forced and confined to their social condition based ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has come to be revered as a hero who led a nonviolent struggle to reform ...
People living in poverty are now bracing for that kind of chopping as a result of the partial government shutdown ...
Not only are these trends not sustainable, but they continue to put tens of millions of Americans on a collision ...
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