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Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women

I’ve spent the last few years working with poor people advocating for change. Seeing their resilience firsthand, I feel hopeful.

In this season of giving, tax laws designed to support charities may actually protect billionaire wealth — at our expense.

Give a gift to the starving workers who made your favorite holiday sweater — tell their employers to pay up.

For generations, poor people have relied on each other to keep a roof over their heads. But in the world’s wealthiest country, we need more.

As a struggling single mom, I’ve learned that poverty is a policy choice, not a personal one. We can reverse it — if we choose.

Conservative lawmakers calling for cuts should start with the agency that can’t account for $1.9 trillion — not the programs Americans rely on.

Candidates aligned with “Moms for Liberty,” a group very much opposed to liberty in our schools, were run out of school boards across the country.

President Biden needs to stand up for federal call center workers like my colleagues and me.

Our elected officials should listen to the two-thirds of Americans calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

If Donald Trump trudges to victory in 2024, he may have to govern from a prison cell.