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Stories and images of hunger and poverty in the United States
For D.C.’s desperate, a refuge from homelessness is about to disappear
by Petula Dvorak Washington Post October 23, 2015
He made a promise to help others. Now he’s giving tents to the homeless . Arnold Harvey began bringing food and clothes to the homeless on his trash route about a decade ago.
by Petula Dvorak Washington Post October 19, 2015
Picking peas should bring a better life
by Rosa Martinez as told to David Bacon New American Media June 3, 2015s
A father’s initiative: Paul Gayle had no job, no money, a new baby and 16 lessons from the Obama administration to teach him what to do next
by Eli Saslow Washington Post May 16, 2015
The Price of Nice Nails: Manicurists are routinely underpaid and exploited, and endure ethnic bias and other abuse, The New York Times has found
by Sarah Maslin Nirmahy New York Times May 7, 2015
For Hardee’s workers, it’s not a parable, it’s a job
by Anne Hull Washington Post March 14, 2015
This powerful Reddit thread reveals how the poor get by in America
by Max Ehrenfreund Washington Post January 15, 2015
Living on the streets of Oakland. The Great Recession may be over, but every night people are sleeping on benches or in makeshift shelters. Here are a few of their stories
by David Bacon East Bay Express August 6, 2014
Poverty endures in a Texas colonia
by Nicole Bengiveno New York Times June 29
Opportunity’s knocks: Tereza Sedgwick is seeing the economy from the bottom up, where the fastest-growing job in America, nursing aide, is also one of the hardest
by Eli Saslow Washington Post May 31, 2014
Fifty years into the War on Poverty, hardship hits back
by Trip Gabriel New York Times April 20, 2014
Ugh. I miss it. Transitioning from military to civilian life and from camaraderie to isolation
by Eli Saslow Washington Post April 19, 2014
Invisible child: Dasani’s homeless life
by Andrea Elliot New York Times December 9, 2013
Caught in unemployment’s revolving door
by Annie Lowrey New York Times November 16, 2013
Meet the American nomads of Walmart’s plentiful parking lots
by Jakob Schiller Wired November 1, 2013
On the edge of poverty, at the center of a debate on food stamps
by Sheryl Gay Stolberg New York Times September 4, 2013
Photo: Michael S. Williamson/Washington Post
Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle
by Eli Saslow Washington Post March 16, 2013
Photo: Linda Davidson/Washington Post
In Rust Belt, a teenager’s climb from poverty
by Anne Hull Washington Post December 8, 2012
In suburbia, a dizzying fall from middle-class grace
by Petula Dvorak Washington Post September 25, 2012
Portraits from a job-starved city: A tour through the stores, factories and offices of Rockford, Illinois
by Alec Soth and Michael Catan New York Times July 2011
Detroit food bank 2010 (photo essay)
by Anthony Suau Facing Change July 2011
Photo: David Bacon.
South of Silicon Valley, hunger haunts California town
by David Bacon New American Media June 20, 2010
Photo: David Bacon
Border communities are ground zero for hunger
by David Bacon New American Media April 18, 2011
Photo: David Bacon
In southwest Virginia, as more need help, aid organization has less to give
by Eli Saslow Washington Post April 17, 2011
Photo: Andrea Morales/New York Times
Ohio town sees public job as only route to middle class
by Sabrina Tavernise New York Times March 15, 2011
Photo: Annie Tritt/New York Times
Itinerant life weighs on farm workers’ children
by Patricia Leigh BrownNew York Times March 12, 2011
Photo: Andrew Spear/New York Times
“Teacher, my dad lost his job. Do we have to move?”
by Michael Winerip New York Times January 30, 2011
Photo: Washington Post
For migrant worker children, frequent school changes damage learning
by Kevin Sieff Washington Post November 7, 2010
Photo: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Across the United States, food stamp use soars and stigma fades–program now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children
by Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff New York Times November 28, 2009
Photo: David Pierini/ ChicagoTribune
Homeless students: increasingly, families taking shelter anywhere they can
by Bonnie Miller Rubin Chicago Tribune October 28, 2009
Photo: Monica Almeida/The New York Times
Recession drives surge in youth runaways
by Ian Urbina New York Times October 5, 2009
Hungry families sleep on the sidewalk, waiting for food in Hayward California
by Paul Schwartzman Washington Post August 5, 2009
Photo: L.M. Otero/New York Times
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