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‘It’s Becoming Too Expensive to Live’: Anxious Older Adults Try to Cope With Limited Budgets

September 7, 2022
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Economic insecurity is upending the lives of millions of older adults as soaring housing costs and inflation diminish the value of fixed

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17,000 kids a day are dying because of malnutrition. What will you do?

May 13, 2022
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Did you know that every day, more than 17,000 children die from hunger and malnutrition? This is equivalent to one child every

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Here’s How Homelessness in New York Compares to the Rest of the Country

November 22, 2022
New York City/New York News

Homelessness is on the rise in the United States. According to a study published by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the number

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AN UNCHARITABLE VIEW OF CHARITY

January 27, 2022
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If billionaires are saying they want to “give back,” it’s because we’ve been letting them take too much. By Jim Hightower | January 26,

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How Excess Military Spending Blocks Building Back Better

December 14, 2022
A Different Way/Assorted Ideas

Understanding why President Biden’s Build Back Better plan stalled requires consuming a big fat reality sandwich: The United States spends more on

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More Than 100,000 NYC Students Are Homeless, New Report Finds

November 9, 2021
New York News

Reema Amin, THE CITY This article was originally publishedon Nov 8 at 11:59am ESTby THE CITY/Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE

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Still Sleeping in the Roosevelt Island Subway. Is there no solution?

October 14, 2021
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Last month, we posted about the high volume of people finding a place to sleep in the Roosevelt Island subway station. Mid-morning

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9/11 AT 20: TWO DECADES OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

September 9, 2021
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For just a fraction of what we’ve spent on militarization these last 20 years, we could start to make life much better.

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TO FIGHT POVERTY, CUT THE PENTAGON BUDGET

June 24, 2021
A Different Way/Republishing

For me, the military wasn’t a way out of poverty. Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the

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