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Turning Down Food Assistance for Poor Children Is Shockingly Callous

Turning Down Food Assistance for Poor Children Is Shockingly Callous

| Feb 7, 2024 | Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis plot line could have come from one of Charles Dickens’ novels about upper-class depravity: “Miserly governors refuse to provide gruel for poverty-stricken ragamuffins.” Unfortunately, this is not a novel, but modern-day reality taking place in 15 states, where...
Cartoon: Exposed to Justice

Cartoon: Exposed to Justice

| | Cartoon|Rights / DemocracyGet a full-resolution version here.
Border Wall Absurdity Is Reaching New Heights

Border Wall Absurdity Is Reaching New Heights

| Jan 31, 2024 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants were fleeing Rust Belt states and pouring across the Red River to take our jobs. So my friend Steve Fromholz recommended a big beautiful wall across our northern border to keep them out. Fromholz, a...
Lawmakers Must Fully Fund the WIC Program

Lawmakers Must Fully Fund the WIC Program

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyWhen my grandmother was raising my cousins and me, she taught us to work hard and go after what we wanted. I didn’t know it at the time, but we were in poverty. Scared of judgment and bureaucracy, my grandmother refused to apply for assistance programs. But that meant...
Cartoon: Roll Over, Honest Abe

Cartoon: Roll Over, Honest Abe

| | Cartoon|Rights / DemocracyGet the full-resolution version here.
The Child Tax Credit Changed My Life. Lawmakers Have a Chance to Bring it Back.

The Child Tax Credit Changed My Life. Lawmakers Have a Chance to Bring it Back.

| Jan 17, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFrom childhood on, I’ve spent my life haunted by the ghost of poverty. A myth exists in America that financial well-being follows if we just work hard and make good choices. But it’s not that simple. At some point, most of us face unforeseen obstacles — from physical...
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