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Title of discussion thread	Replies	Author	Start time	Last reply	Recs	Views
MEDICAID Cuts Start In Spring, Est 8M Will Lose Eligibility: How To Shop For New Health Ins Plans -P	0	appalachiablue	Mar 20	Mar 20	0	2660
Paying off the mortgage tomorrow! Yea!	23	Chainfire	Apr 2022	Dec 2022	10	2685
Cousin, 62. Diagnosed with degenerating spinal disks. Receives some public assistance.	9	3Hotdogs	Nov 2022	Nov 2022	3	3585
LAHSA Explains Workers Throwing Food Away Intended For Homeless Individuals	0	Anon-C	May 2022	May 2022	4	3957
Guns Instead of Butter	1	unhappycamper	Feb 2016	Feb 2021	2	4186
Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about starving while working at billion-dollar food	5	unhappycamper	Feb 2016	Jul 2020	11	22581
Living on the Streets of L.A.	2	Newest Reality	Feb 2020	Jun 2020	3	6905
Why Is No One Talking About the GOP’s Plan to Send Millions of Disabled Americans Into Poverty?	11	unhappycamper	Feb 2015	Jun 2020	11	13687
Sad this group has no recent posts	6	I_UndergroundPanther	Dec 2019	Jun 2020	5	3204
Mass Poor People's Assembly & Moral March on Washington June 20th,	0	BigmanPigman	Jun 2020	Jun 2020	4	7983
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	2	4580
The Cost of Child Poverty with Lenette Azzi-Lessing	0	littlemissmartypants	Feb 2020	Feb 2020	1	3494
What are the Causes of Institutionally Created Poverty?	5	BlueDog22	Feb 2018	Feb 2020	1	3708
Three Mothers Occupy an empty house in Oakland for 2 months are evicted with armored vehicles	1	Beringia	Jan 2020	Jan 2020	3	2516
Rev. William Barber on the Political Power of Poor People: 'We Have to Change Our Whole Narrative'	5	littlemissmartypants	Dec 2019	Dec 2019	10	2336
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	2784
What happens when a motel becomes home	16	rug	Nov 2016	Sep 2019	5	7361
Kitsap Rescue Mission set to lose permit to operate overnight shelter	0	icymist	Sep 2019	Sep 2019	0	1754
Have been reading up about living in an RV or buying a tiny home	12	Beringia	Mar 2019	Mar 2019	3	4308
Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America	2	littlemissmartypants	Nov 2018	Nov 2018	9	2252
60%interest on payday loans in Ohio. xpost	0	irisblue	Jul 2018	Jul 2018	2	1564
Airbnb is making the housing crunch much worse	0	Addison	May 2018	May 2018	7	2385
Grocery stores worry about Trump's pullback on SNAP (food stamps)	3	left-of-center2012	Apr 2018	Apr 2018	0	2398
This message was self-deleted by its author	21	OhNo-Really	Feb 2018	Feb 2018	57	9960
Poverty Is Both a Political and a Moral Choice Made By the Powerful	2	inanna	Dec 2017	Feb 2018	7	2472
Sharing about a pet resource	0	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Dec 2017	Dec 2017	2	1512
I would like suggestions on how to get out of debt	35	otherone	Nov 2015	Aug 2017	5	8743
Mick Mulvaney's Steel Workers	2	srcameron	Apr 2017	Apr 2017	0	5620
Iowa to LOWER minimum wage	4	appleannie1943	Mar 2017	Mar 2017	5	4457
Today was my last day working for poverty wages.	39	malokvale77	Dec 2015	Feb 2017	62	10498
ALICE WALTON IS WORTH 21 BILLION DOLLARS	11	tomkoop	Jun 2012	Jul 2016	6	6916
Is the F-35 our Death Star?	4	unhappycamper	Feb 2016	May 2016	6	2623
x post from: Snarkoleptic::economy::omaha steve labour group:restaurant+bankcards stiff workers	0	w0nderer	May 2016	May 2016	1	2046
Big Money in Politics Doesn’t Just Drive Inequality. It Drives War.	2	unhappycamper	Apr 2016	Apr 2016	6	2250
X post from n2doc in GD : Unique Community Kitchen is set up like a restaurant...	0	w0nderer	Mar 2016	Mar 2016	2	2282
for notice:: xposted from freakingdj's "$2.13 Minimum Wage - are you fucking kidding me"	0	w0nderer	Feb 2016	Feb 2016	2	2036
SES and Education	1	aswanson	Feb 2016	Feb 2016	1	2215
Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex	0	unhappycamper	Feb 2016	Feb 2016	3	2693
Utah	0	w0nderer	Feb 2016	Feb 2016	1	1599
x-post via ohiochick::: Over 1 million face loss of food stamps over work requirements	0	w0nderer	Jan 2016	Jan 2016	3	2153
Oh my god	3	rusty quoin	Dec 2015	Jan 2016	7	2274
When John Edwards, warts and all, spoke of the two Americas	4	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2015	Dec 2015	6	2539
Talk About Inequality	3	unhappycamper	Oct 2015	Dec 2015	5	2220
The Homeless Raise Issues of Discrimination in Pacific Beach	4	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2015	Dec 2015	4	2739
Two stories from the weekend, how do you connect these two causes?	0	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2015	Dec 2015	1	1665
A Dog “Was Poisoned by Either a Manager or One of the Workers.” George Ibarra	1	nadinbrzezinski	Dec 2015	Dec 2015	5	2354
We Need To Talk	1	unhappycamper	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	6	1846
Proposed Constitutional Amendment, Limiting Idle Wealth	1	Al Carroll	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	5	3190
debtors jail Mississippi (workaround for authorities) xpost workingpoor from two articles	0	w0nderer	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	0	2084
Five years on, it's still the pits for Chilean miners	0	unhappycamper	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	3	1543
Nearly 800 million people suffering from hunger worldwide: report	0	unhappycamper	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	1	1910
I hope i'm not pissing someone off	3	w0nderer	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	0	2254
It costs you $43 every time you wait for the doctor	2	unhappycamper	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	3	2852
For the children	1	unhappycamper	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	4	1663
'We were paying to poison our kids': lead in Michigan city's water hits children	1	unhappycamper	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	8	2406
Will: Keeping Navy shipshape should be on candidates' radar (xpost from NSD)	0	unhappycamper	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	0	1693
“I’m on welfare and so ashamed …”	9	unhappycamper	Sep 2015	Sep 2015	20	4545
Tax avoidance by corporations is out out control. The United Nations must step in	1	unhappycamper	Sep 2015	Sep 2015	3	2393
Pope Leaves, Boehner Resigns, Shutdown Looms…	0	unhappycamper	Sep 2015	Sep 2015	0	1872
Protesters call for Treasury official to leave role in Puerto Rico debt crisis	0	unhappycamper	Sep 2015	Sep 2015	5	2052
Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014	35	unhappycamper	Sep 2014	Sep 2015	57	6611
Suck It Up, Proles	4	unhappycamper	Sep 2015	Sep 2015	11	2766
Cutting Pentagon pork could fund free childcare in the US	2	unhappycamper	Sep 2015	Sep 2015	6	2168
City Council, please seriously address Philly’s LGBT homeless youth problem	0	unhappycamper	Aug 2015	Aug 2015	2	2116
Most 2016 GOP Presidential Candidates Would Push Seniors Into Poverty By Cutting Social Security	0	unhappycamper	Aug 2015	Aug 2015	5	1779
How an Apartment Tower in Atlanta Is Makes Life a Living Hell for Its Poor Residents	1	unhappycamper	Aug 2015	Aug 2015	8	2498
How can cities successfully enforce a higher minimum wage?	1	unhappycamper	Aug 2015	Aug 2015	0	1822
Racialized Poverty in America has Nearly Doubled in 21st Century	0	unhappycamper	Aug 2015	Aug 2015	1	2012
Game of Groans: How focus on Trump Taunts hides GOP war on Middle Class, Workers	1	unhappycamper	Aug 2015	Aug 2015	5	1878
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	3781
Public cos. to report pay gap between CEOs, employees	0	unhappycamper	Aug 2015	Aug 2015	0	1599
Pell grants to bring college back to prison: US is 'a nation of second chances'	2	unhappycamper	Aug 2015	Aug 2015	2	2602
"Welfare": differing connotations?	3	YoungDemCA	Aug 2015	Aug 2015	0	2595
CEO pay at US’s largest companies up 54% since recovery began in 2009	13	unhappycamper	Jun 2015	Jul 2015	20	3859
You’re probably going to be poor	0	unhappycamper	Jul 2015	Jul 2015	7	2006
New Orleans Katrina Pain Index at Ten: Who Was Left Behind	1	unhappycamper	Jul 2015	Jul 2015	6	2336
Sandy Irving: Invest in people, not military jets	0	unhappycamper	Jul 2015	Jul 2015	2	1449
Republicans can’t stop comparing food stamp recipients to wild animals on Facebook	2	unhappycamper	Jul 2015	Jul 2015	4	2791
Debunking the Debased Gospel of Wealth: "1% Deserve Loot Plus Our Thanks"	0	unhappycamper	Jul 2015	Jul 2015	3	1808
Here’s how homeless kids and families are trying to survive in one of America’s richest cities	0	unhappycamper	Jul 2015	Jul 2015	5	2656