• I'm Pat Garofalo, author of "The Billionaire Boondoggle," a book about why local politicians give out so many corporate tax breaks, and why they're such a bad deal for your city or state. AMA https://talkpoverty.org/ 129 comments 25/4/2019 politics
• The Washington Post’s Reporting on Disability Is Giving Trump Cover for Disability Cuts https://talkpoverty.org/2017/06/02/washington-posts-reporting-disability-giving-trump-cover-disability-cuts/ 5 comments 3/6/2017 politics
• Conservatives Say Raising the Minimum Wage Kills Jobs. New Research Says they're Wrong. https://talkpoverty.org/2016/10/28/conservatives-say-raising-minimum-wage-kills-jobs-new-research-says-theyre-wrong-2/ 40 comments 7/11/2016 economy
• The Federal Poverty Line is Too Damn Low https://talkpoverty.org/2016/09/13/poverty-rate-just-dropped-way-measure-poverty-wrong/ 7 comments 15/9/2016 politics
• Nearly 7 in 10 millennials agree that “we should consider increasing Social Security benefits.” It’s time for policymakers to listen to them, and expand Social Security for all generations of Americans https://talkpoverty.org/2016/05/10/millennials-greatest-stake-social-security-expansion/ 77 comments 12/5/2016 politics
• American public overwhelmingly supports investments that expand opportunity for low- and moderate-income people, and they are even more sympathetic when asked about specific programs https://talkpoverty.org/2016/05/04/why-support-for-fighting-poverty-is-already-higher-than-you-think/ 5 comments 6/5/2016 politics
• "The world’s wealthiest corporations. Unwilling to pay their workers a living wage, they use federal poverty programs to subsidize their labor costs." http://talkpoverty.org/2016/03/11/the-new-war-on-poverty/ 16 comments 11/3/2016 politics
• Bill O’Reilly Denied Child Hunger Exists. Here’s How Four Mothers Who Have Faced Hunger Responded. http://talkpoverty.org/2015/10/08/bill-oreilly-denied-child-hunger-exists-4-mothers-struggled-hunger-respond/ 76 comments 8/10/2015 politics
• Instead of Shaming the Poor Let's Raise the Minimum Wage http://talkpoverty.org/2015/09/29/poor-shaming-minimum-wage/ 235 comments 29/9/2015 politics
• How We Punish People for Being Poor | Low-income individuals are being sold auto loans at twice the actual value of the car, with interest rates as high as 29 percent. Families who turn to predatory payday loans can end up trapped in an inescapable cycle of debt at 400 percent annual interest. http://talkpoverty.org/2014/10/07/punished-for-being-poor/ 3 comments 14/10/2014 politics
• Solutions to Cut Poverty & Grow the Middle Class: There is nothing inevitable about poverty, and there is nothing inevitable about the lack of political will to dramatically reduce it. http://talkpoverty.org/2014/09/17/top-10-solutions-cut-poverty-grow-middle-class/ 5 comments 4/10/2014 politics
• Beyond the Minimum Wage: What’s Really Keeping Hourly Workers in Poverty? | "These low-quality jobs also impact the broader community because employers shift costs—particularly for health care for their workers—to our already overburdened public systems." http://talkpoverty.org/2014/08/06/beyond-minimum-wage-whats-really-keeping-hourly-workers-poverty/ 34 comments 6/8/2014 politics

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