Updated 2024
Poverty is getting much worse thanks to the policies of both parties. All indications are that poverty is not only getting worse, it is approaching third world status in many areas. We can ill afford to ignore these dangers.
Poverty—and the stress of being poor—is killing people every single day
To aggravate the problem actions and agencies which in the past alleviated the misery - such as unemployment insurance, medicare, access to higher education, and social security - are now being dismantled or diminished. The chances to climb out of poverty are diminishing and there is a sophisticated effort to portray poor people as lazy moochers off of society rather than hold policy makers of both parties accountable.
Scott Galloway offers an excellent overview in his book Adrift: America in 100 Charts. Telling the story of our nation through 100 charts, Galloway offers a unique take on where we’re headed and who we’ll become.
The reason I have so many references is to show this is a steadily increasing trend that I continuously update. It is not a vanishing blip on the radar. Failure to deal with this trend will have disastrous consequences for the future.
This is not the result of an accident or natural disaster. It is the result of decades of government policy by both democrats and republicans.
This will have disastrous consequences as we head towards a more and more unequal society.
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References
1-Economy
2-Economic Graphs
3-Health Care
4-How Big Media Ignores the Poor
5-Poverty in America - It is Not What You Think
6-Education
7-Inconvenient Income Inequality
8-Talking About Poverty With Greg Kaufmann
9-Graph Comparing Corporate Profits and Wages
10-The Great Social Security Robbery
11-Explaining the Pure Cruelty of Obama's Gimmick, "Chained CPI" in Simple Language
12-Obama’s Historic Assault on Social Security
13-Downward Mobility Haunts US Education
14-In your face: Homelessness in America
15-Number of U.S. “Working Poor” Is on the Increase
16-How Hard Is Poverty Hitting Your County?
A map of changes in poverty, county by county.
17-Low-Income Working Families: The Growing Economic Gap
18-2 Years in Jail for Sitting on a Milk Crate? The Shocking Ways America Punishes Poor People Living on the Street (Hard Times, USA)
19-Desperate US students seek “arrangements”
20-Hard Times, USA: Would You Consider Thinking Differently About Poverty and Poor and Homeless People?
21-Steve Fraser, Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt
22-Tax Cuts or Tax Reform? (and the Implications for Inequality)
23-The Poverty Trap, English Version
24-This Week in Poverty: An Antipoverty Contract for 2013?
25-Today’s Anti-Social Security Propaganda
26-Top CEOs plan to loot US social programmes
27-Obama’s Failed State
28-The Poverty Trap, English Version.
29-The Circle of The Vulnerable Is Much Larger Than They Thought.
30-Two New Films Address American Poverty
31-Austerity’s “War on the Poor”: U.K. Edition.
32-Letter from BO as a response to Chained CPI
33-This Week in Poverty: American Winter
34-This Is What Happens When You Rip a Hole in the Safety Net
35-American Poverty
36-Budget to Include Social Security Cuts
37-Documentary 'A Place At The Table' Is A Call To Action On Hunger
38-Going to Bed Hungry
39-Report: Ohio Is Illegally Throwing Poor People In Jail For Owing Money
40-The Circle of The Vulnerable Is Wider Than They Think
41-This Week in Poverty: Sequestration, Housing, Homelessness
42-America is Ignoring Homeless Families
43-Profiting From Human Misery
44-The U.S. ranks 2nd in child poverty
45-U.S. ranks near bottom of UNICEF report on child well-being
46-The Real Numbers: Half of America in Poverty -- and It's Creeping Upward
47-U.S. Poverty: By the Numbers
48-Sorry, There's Been No Economic Recovery for Poor and Minority Households
49-Let Them Eat…Nothing At All by Marlene Martin - New Report Finds 1 in 6 in U.S. are Going Hungry
50-Why is the Federal Poverty Line So Far Off?
51-As holidays near, food stamp recipients face cut
52-Five Things You Might Have Missed on ‘Poverty Day’
53-Huge Spike In Poverty Among Elderly Women Catches Analysts By Surprise
54-Slapping the poor just for the hell of it
57-More Americans struggle to afford food: Poll
58-Soaring number of elderly U.S. women live in extreme poverty
60-US food stamp assistance to be slashed next week
62-‘Are There No Workhouses?’ 2014: The Continuing War on the Poor
63-Blaming the Poor for Poverty
64-City Defends Decision To Close Homeless Shelter On Coldest Day Of Season
65-Democrats Protest $5 Billion Food Stamp Cut They Voted For
66-Doctors Slam Proposed Food Stamp Cuts: ‘The Dumbest Thing You Can Do Is Cut Nutrition’
67-Food stamp cuts coming soon, sponsored by Democrats (You read that correctly)
68-Homelessness Increases in U.S.
69-How much are you willing to pay to take food from the malnourished?
70-How to Cut Poverty in Half in Ten Years
71-In the U.S. 49.7 Million Are Now Poor, and 80% of the Total Population Is Near Poverty
72-K-12 student homelessness in US hits record high - report
74-Los Angeles to join New York and 50 other U.S. cities with ban on feeding homeless people
75-More Than 1 In 10 Americans Who Work Full Time Are Still Poor
77-Photo Slideshow: Poverty in Today’s America
79-REPORT: The Food Stamp Cuts The Media Won't Tell You About
80-More people homeless in NYC, LA
81-Report: Ohio Is Illegally Throwing Poor People In Jail For Owing Money
83-Texas school tosses 6th grader’s breakfast in trash after he can’t pay 30 cents
84-The 49 states of rising child poverty
85-The Real 21st-Century Problem in Public Education is Poverty
86-The Real Numbers: Half of America in Poverty -- and It's Creeping Upward
87-The Time Has Come for $15 Minimum Wage
88-Tide Thefts, Cargo Hijacking And Cattle Rustling: Why Is An Epidemic Of Thievery Sweeping America?
90-St. Louis Church Ordered To Stop Handing Out Hot Meals To The Homeless
91-A Modern-Day Debtors' Prison? Judges Push Back Against the South's Privatization Wave
92-Baltimore Steals from Homeless
93-Baton Rouge’s Rich Want New Town to Keep Poor Pupils Out: Taxes
94-Child Poverty in Rich Countries
95-Percent of Low Income Students in States: Teachers were Never the Problem
96-Farm Bill Cuts $8 Billion in Food Stamps, Preserves Handouts to Koch Industries
97-Florida Couple Fined, Threatened with Jail for Feeding Homeless
98-GDOT Sends Bulldozers for 40 Homeless Camping Under I-75/85 and I-20
100-Houston-area mentor pays delinquent lunch accounts for more than 60 kids
101-How We Won — and Lost — the War on Poverty, in 6 Charts
102-Los Angeles to join New York and 50 other U.S. cities with ban on feeding homeless people
103-More Evidence That Half of America Is in or Near Poverty
104-More US Cities Are Cracking Down on Feeding the Homeless
105-Obama signing farm bill that trims food stamps
106-Obama signs food stamp cuts into law
107-Our Neoliberal President: Obama wants to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority.
108-Pastor Blocked From Feeding The Homeless Because He Doesn’t Have A $500 Permit
109-President Obama signs $8.7 billion food stamp cut into law
110-Principal stopped school’s shaming free lunch kids with hand stamps, says it got her fired
114-The Three Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Poverty
115-There’s a Class War Going On and the Poor Are Getting Their Butts Kicked
116-VIDEO: To Prison For Poverty
117-Welcome Home: The Rise of Tent Cities in the United States
118-Detroit Cuts Off Water To Poor People BUT Not Delinquent Businesses!
119-Detroit Shuts Off Water to Residents but Not to Businesses Who Owe Millions
120-VIDEO: Detroit Water Crisis is a Prelude to the Privatization of Water
121-President Obama signs $8.7 billion food stamp cut into law
122-WTF? Our Tax Dollars Are Being Spent to Jail a Vet for Being Poor
123-By the Numbers: US Poverty
124-Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Criticized by United Nations
125-Poverty Unchanged By Wall Street Recovery
126-43 Million People Kicked Out of Their Homes
127-More Than Half Of American Public Schoolchildren Now Live In Poverty: Study
128-Poverty-stricken neighborhoods almost triple in US
129-The 6-Step Process to Wipe Out the Poor Half of America
130-The National War on the Homeless Continues: Mass Eviction in San Jose
131-These Are The States Where Poor Students Are Most Likely To Have Inexperienced Teachers
133-“We Are Entering the Age of Infinite Examination”
134-69-year-old Vietnam vet with throat cancer freezes to death after company shuts off his gas
135-The Answer to Homelessness? Reliable Employment.
136-Employers Complain of Rising Premiums, But Workers’ Comp Is at 25-Year Low
138-Reducing Our Obscene Level of Child Poverty
139-Punishing schools for child poverty doesn't help students
140-The American Labor Movement, 2.0 by Anthony Noel
141-1 in 4 US renters must use half their pay for housing costs
144-A Foreclosure Conveyor Belt: The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit
147-Criminalizing Poverty: A Toxic and Growing Phenomenon
150-How the New Flexible Economy Is Making Workers’ Lives Hell
151-How The World Bank Broke Its Promise To Protect The Poor
152-Los Angeles Seeks to Ban Homeless People from Sleeping in Cars And RV’s
154-How Big Media Ignores the Poor
155-Putting Families First: Good Jobs for All
156-Significant pension cuts loom for retirees
157-Texas woman invokes ‘religious freedom’ argument to fight $2000 fine for feeding the homeless
160-The Reality of Surviving Exhausting, Desperation-Inducing Poverty
161-The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
162-This City Could Become The Next Detroit
163-Tomgram: Laura Gottesdiener, Another Round of Detroit Refugees?
164-What Recovery? Los Angeles Homeless Population Rises by 12%
168-We Are All Greeks Now by Chris Hedges
169-In the U.S. 49.7 Million Are Now Poor, and 80% of the Total Population Is Near Poverty
170-It’s Time to Stop Discarding the Elderly
171-New Orleans Katrina Pain Index at Ten: Who Was Left Behind
172-Ohio Child Poverty Rate On Rise
173-The numbers are staggering: US is ‘world leader’ in child poverty
174-High rent is forcing Las Vegas families to take to the sewers
176-Trying to Survive in a Broken Economy
177-What an Anti-Poverty Movement Looks Like (It’s Not What You Think)
179-37 Facts About How Cruel This Economy Has Been To Millions Of Desperate American Families
180-America's permanent, ubiquitous tent-cities
181-Got heat? If you're poor, you'll have less than last winter because austerity rulzzzzzzz
182-In the U.S. 49.7 Million Are Now Poor, and 80% of the Total Population Is Near Poverty
183-Lunch Lady Who Gave Free Meal to Hungry Child Fired for ‘Theft’ (VIDEO)
184-Only in America: Four years into life, poor kids are already an entire year behind
185-Washington Post Promotes Dickensian Marketing Experiment on Poor Children
187-Chris Hedges Pity the Children
188-Disparity in Life Spans of the Rich and the Poor Is Growing
191-Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Minimum Wage, Minimum Chance
192-Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty
193-L.A. Government Destroying Tiny Houses To Keep People Homeless
194-Michigan's poverty rate soars as income drops even in economic rebound, census shows
195-More Than a Dozen US Cities Destroy Homeless Camps Days Before Christmas
196-New Data Says 49.7 Million Are Now Poor, With 80% of the Total Population Near Poverty
198-Obama Signs $8.7 Billion Food Stamp Cut Into Law { More Cuts Will Follow To Other Social Programs }
199-Rich Kids Stay Rich, Poor Kids Stay Poor
200-Tomgram: Ann Jones, Social Democracy for Dummies
201-Why many low-income families have Internet access, but remain 'under-connected'
202-L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless
203-After Enacting Highest Minimum Wage, This State Leads Nation In Job & Wage Growth
206-Producing Poverty: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Production Jobs in Manufacturing
207-Democrats silent as one million lose food stamp benefits in the US
208-Detroit hits residents on water shut-offs as businesses slide
209-Disposable Americans: The Numbers are Growing
211-There has never been a country that should have been so rich but ended up this poor
212-How global tax evasion keeps poor countries poor
213-HUD Wants To Make Living In A Tiny House Or RV Illegal
214-John Kasich and the Clintons Collaborated on Law That Helped Double Extreme Poverty
215-New Data Says 49.7 Million Are Now Poor, With 80% of the Total Population Near Poverty
217-Obama's Anti-Populist Agenda
218-The numbers are staggering: US is ‘world leader’ in child poverty
219-There’s Nothing Fair About Detroit’s Massive Water Shut Offs
220-Understanding the Squeeze on Millennials
221-US Government Declaring All Out War on Tiny House Living
222-USA: The World's Newest Third World Nation
224-Whose Recovery? Many Americans Remain in Critical Condition
225-Is America Engaged In A 'Vicious Circle' Of Jailing The Poor?
226-21st Century Detroit-style Power and Struggle: The Detroit Literacy Case
228-Black Wealth Has Fallen Further Under Barack Obama Than Under Any President Since the Depression
229-Church facing $12,000 fine for letting homeless people sleep on property
230-Coal Will Not Cure Global Poverty
231-How Jails Extort the Poor (TED Talks)
232-Democrats Accept More Cuts in Food Stamp Program
233-Katrina and Other Catastrophes
234-Musician Builds Tiny Homes for the Homeless — City Promptly Seizes and Destroys Them
235-Older Americans Pushed Into Poverty as Feds Garnish Social Security for Student Debt
236-Oregon woman evicted from senior housing for $328 in late rent freezes to death in parking garage
237-That’s rich: Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record
238-President Obama signs $8.7 billion food stamp cut into law
239-The Globalization of Poverty: Inside the New World Order
240-All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white working class
241-Tomgram: Judith Coburn, On the Mean Streets of America
242-Why is the Federal Poverty Line So Far Off?
243-Why Obama Won’t Help Foreclosure Victims
244-Debtors’ Prison For Kids: Poor Children Incarcerated When Families Can’t Pay Juvenile Court Fees
245-Report Reveals The Reality Of Childhood Hunger In The U.S. - These statistics are startling.
247-5 Ways The Government Keeps Native Americans In Poverty
249-A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
250-Alabama Has The Worst Poverty In The Developed World, U.N. Official Says
251-Behind the minimum wage fight, a sweeping failure to enforce the law - Raising hourly pay is a rallying cry for 2018, but states often fail to get workers the money that’s owed them.
252-California city confiscates toilets from homeless residents – forcing them to use buckets
256-Extreme poverty in America: read the UN special monitor's report
257-Goodbye Middle Class: 51 Percent Of All American Workers Make Less Than 30,000 Dollars A Year
258-In the U.S. 49.7 Million Are Now Poor, and 80% of the Total Population Is Near Poverty
260-L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless
261-NAFTA, The Cross-Border Disaster
262-Raw sewage, hookworm and civil rights: UN official shocked at poverty in rural Alabama
264-Study By MIT Economist: U.S. Has Regressed To A Third-World Nation For Most Of Its Citizens
265-The House just passed a $1.5 trillion tax bill that’s brutal for poor people
266-Tomgram: Nomi Prins, You, Sir, Are No Alexander Hamilton
267-‘People just give up’: Low-income hurricane victims slam federal relief programs Nine months after Harvey, middle-class Houston has recovered, but low-income neighborhoods are in disarray.
268-Cheating workers out of wages is easier than ever
269-In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America
270-New evidence shows that our anti-poverty programs, especially Social Security, work well
271-Parents Didn’t Want Fracking Near Their School. So the Oil Company Chose a Poorer School, Instead. The first school was 77-percent white. The second is 87-percent students of color.
272-The United Nations Just Published a Scathing Indictment of US Poverty
273-Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, What Does Poverty Feel Like?
274-Tomgram: Rajan Menon, The Wages of Poverty in America
275-Still scraping by while the bankers celebrate
276-When 43% of Americans Can’t Pay for Food and Rent, We Can Safely Say the Economic Collapse Is HERE
277-Austerity results in 'social murder' according to new research
278-What keeps families in one of the most polluted places in California?
279-Half of Americans Are Effectively Poor Now. What The? America’s Collapsing Because it’s the World’s First Poor Rich Country
280-Linking Popular Movements And Unions Is A Winning Strategy For Workers
281-More Millennials Are Dying 'Deaths of Despair,' as Overdose and Suicide Rates Climb
282-NYT Presents Social Security Cuts as ‘Solution’ to Problem of Social Security Cuts
283-Privatizing Poverty - How the poor became an alien population
284-U.N. report: With 40M in poverty, U.S. most unequal developed nation
285-Employers are underpaying workers $1.8 billion a year
286-What I’ve Learned About Unemployment And Being Poor After Applying For 215 Jobs
287-Yes, Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty: Here's More Evidence Too many Americans have been cheated out of opportunities to share in our nation's prosperity. The proof is overwhelming.
288-Hundreds of Thousands Are Losing Access to Food Stamps - The Agriculture Department gave its final approval to the first of three rules that are ultimately expected to cut more than three million from the food stamp rolls.
290-New Report Confirms Just How Shitty US Workers Have It - Compared to other rich nations, the U.S. offers very little in the way of vacation time, parental leave, or unemployment benefits.
291-Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Orders Mass Arrest of Housing Justice Village Protesters
293-The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America Poverty—and the stress of being poor—is killing people every single day
294-This is How a Society Dies - America and Britain are Textbook Examples of a New, Gruesome Phenomeon: Rich Nations Self-Destructing Into Poor Failed States
295-White House Moves to Strip Free School Lunches From 500,000 Kids
296-U.N. report: With 40M in poverty, U.S. most unequal developed nation
297-UN: For Many Americans, The U.S. Is Approaching Third World Conditions
298-Understanding The U.S. Economy: Lots Of Rotten Jobs
299-US Workers Are Paying High Taxes. But Without Any of the Benefits.
300-What 60 Minutes Missed: 44 Percent of U.S. Workers Earn $18,000 Per Year
301-Yes, Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty: Here's More Evidence - Too many Americans have been cheated out of opportunities to share in our nation's prosperity. The proof is overwhelming.
302-Poverty Grows Despite Economic Recovery
303-Small Acts Can Become A Power No Government Can Suppress
304-U.S. is worst among developed nations for worker benefits
305-How Congress Made Sure the Rich Retire in Luxury—at Taxpayer Expense Savings plans pitched as helping the middle class have turned out to be a gold mine for the wealthy.
306-Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions
307-Honest Government Ad | the Rental (& Housing) Crisis
308-The Progenitor of Inequalities—Corporate Personhood vs. Human Beings The biggest prize of all for the uses of corporate-dominant inequality over real people is the control of the Congress, state legislatures, country boards, city councils, and elections, along with the selection of judges.
309-American Dream For Rent: Investors elbow out individual home buyers
310-Biden's Debt Ceiling Betrayal is a Democratic Party Tradition
311-Poverty in America Has Strong Structural Roots That Some People Profit From
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