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Economy

Lyndon B. Johnson

The Battle Hymn of the War on Poverty

How the call to empathy helped mobilize a nation.

by Sasha Abramsky

How to Build an Anti-Poverty Movement, From the Grassroots Up
Ten groups that are laying the foundation for an economic justice revival.
Greg Kaufmann
Posted Jan 14 2014 - 8:41pm
David Brooks Shows His Hand on ‘Inequality’
The conservative NYT columnist steers the conversation away from economics and toward “behavioral” terrain.
Eric Alterman
Posted Jan 22 2014 - 12:27pm
Welcome to the New America: Low-Wage Nation
Soon we’ll all be stuck with the unjust working conditions that immigrants face: contingent jobs, with lousy pay and few or no benefits.
Saket Soni
Posted Dec 30 2013 - 2:06pm

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News and Features

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Tar from the tobacco leaves stains the hands of young workers.
Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields? (Health, Youth, Working Conditions)

Young farm workers are falling ill from “green tobacco sickness” while the industry denies it and government lets it happen.

Gabriel Thompson
Children spinning
Child Labor in the USA (Labor, Law, Wages and Hours, Working Conditions)

The country must find the political will to end this national disgrace.

The Editors
Handcuffed
Boxed In: How a Criminal Record Keeps You Unemployed For Life (Labor, Law)

People like Luis Rivera are being locked out of the formal workforce forever thanks to one youthful mistake.

Kai Wright
JP Morgan elevators
How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme—Again (Economics, Corporations)

This time it’s securities bundled from rentals, rather than mortgages.

Laura Gottesdiener
Miami skyline
Miami: Where Luxury Real Estate Meets Dirty Money (Cities, White-Collar Crime)

The buyers come from all over the globe, bearing cash and complicated pasts.

Ken Silverstein

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