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A child learned his favorite waiter was struggling. He raised $30,000 for him.
Vittoria Hunter and her family have a ritual of breakfast at their local Waffle House in Little Rock every weekend. For about a year, they have requested to sit in the section of their favorite waiter, Devonte Gardner. “He’s the nicest person ever,” said Hunter, 35.
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Shame makes people living in poverty more supportive of authoritarianism, study finds
A series of three studies in Germany found that people living in poverty frequently experience exclusion from different aspects of society and devaluation leading to the feeling of shame. Such shame, in turn, increases their support for authoritarianism due to the promise that that they will be included in the society again authoritarian leaders typically make. The study was published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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Right-Wing Supreme Court Tacitly Approved the Execution of Innocent People
Now people who had incompetent lawyers aren’t entitled to present evidence of their innocence in federal court.
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Meet the mayors pushing for guaranteed income in 30 cities across the country
In Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” the civil rights leader discussed how to best address poverty in the United States. “I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective — the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income,” he wrote.
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The federal eviction moratorium expires in January. It could leave 40 million Americans homeless.
Without federal intervention, as many as 40 million people could be displaced amid an ongoing and still worsening pandemic.
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Silicon Valley's hunger problems grow during a time of record profits
On a bright but brisk Saturday morning in December, less than 2 miles from Facebook's Frank Gehry-designed campus, a steady stream of Toyotas, Hondas and minivans lined up at a weekly food distribution site at Cesar Chavez Ravenswood Middle School.
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The Relief Bill’s Biggest Blind Spot
Millions will owe an average of $5,850 in back rent and utilities next month. But the latest aid package did too little to address housing.
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Nearly 19 million Americans could lose their homes when eviction limits expire Dec. 31
Millions of households are behind on their rent and face a potential "fiscal cliff" early next year.
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Coronavirus Has Thrown Around 100 Million People Into Extreme Poverty, World Bank Estimates
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown between 88 million and 114 million people into extreme poverty, according to the World Bank’s biennial estimates of global poverty. The reversal is by far the largest increase in extreme poverty going back to 1990 when the data begin, and marks an end to a streak of more than two decades of declines in the number of the extremely impoverished, which the World Bank defines as living on less than $1.90 a day, or about $700 a year.
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‘I am beside myself’: millions in the US face evictions amid looming crisis
About 19 to 23 million people are estimated to be at risk of being evicted after federal programs to help 30 million unemployed Americans expired in July. One night last week instead of sleeping Florence Hobbs hopped around her apartment on a broken ankle, trying to pack everything she owned as fast as was possible. Her landlord had given her a 24-hour eviction notice and she didn’t want her things tossed out of the apartment in Charleston, South Carolina, when the clock ran out.
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24 million Americans fear missing next rent payment as benefits dry up
Black and Hispanic households in greatest danger as evictions loom. Days from the end of enhanced unemployment benefits and a federal eviction moratorium, 24 million Americans say they have little to no chance of being able to pay next month’s rent, a U.S. Census Bureau survey shows.
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Malnutrition in poorer nations costs firms up to $850 bln: study
Hunger, poor nutrition and obesity not only present a health burden in developing countries but carry a hidden economic penalty that costs businesses up to $850 billion a year, according to a new report published Wednesday. Researchers said malnutrition reduces the resilience of populations to risks such as infectious disease outbreaks and extreme climate events, as well as causing a reduction in productivity and earnings.
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An ‘Avalanche of Evictions’ Could Be Bearing Down on America’s Renters
The economic downturn is shaping up to be particularly devastating for renters, who are more likely to be lower-income and work hourly jobs cut during the pandemic.
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A Window Onto an American Nightmare
Zach Hickson arrived in San Francisco to stay three years ago, at twenty-seven, because nowhere in America seemed more appealing at the time. The city was mild and fragrant. The streets on clear days had a liquid energy, and seemed to offer opportunities that he hadn’t had before. “It was a place where I could do what I wanted to do,” he told me recently. He began to call the city home.
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COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of our economies
The human dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic reach far beyond the critical health response, as all aspects of our future will be affected - economic, social and developmental. Our response must be urgent and coordinated on a global scale, and should immediately deliver help to those most in need, writes Guy Ryder.
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Deceit, Disrepair and Death Inside a Southern California Rental Empire
At the bottom rung of the SoCal rental market, some tenants live in insect- and mold-infested units, struggling to get their most basic maintenance needs met.
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11-Year-Old N.Y.C. Boy Opens Thrift Shop for Low-Income Families: 'I Wanted to Be a Hero'
Obocho Peters is a fifth-grader on a mission to make sure those who are less fortunate are able to dress to impress. With that in mind, the 11-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, runs Obocho’s Closet, a thrift store selling affordable donated clothes and shoes for kids for under $10, according to Good Morning America.
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Homeless, not phoneless: The app saving society's forgotten tech users
When Lisa Peterson became homeless, she spent months without a bed of her own. But her phone never left her sight. Driving across the country, couch-surfing and staying in crisis accommodations, Lisa would charge her phone at train stations and use free public Wi-Fi to stay connected.
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The Psychological Impacts Of Poverty, Digested
For a “rich” country, by global standards, the UK has an awful lot of people who are not. Fourteen million people — one fifth of the population — live in poverty. Of these, four million are more than 50% below the poverty line, and 1.5 million are classed as destitute, unable to afford even basic life essentials.
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Is globalization bad for the global poor? This study ran an experiment to find out.
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