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Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of…
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Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused…
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For decades, conversations about poverty have focused on jobs, public assistance, parenting, and mass incarceration. After years of intense fieldwork and…
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Vassar and New York Stage and Film’s first main stage Powerhouse production this season is Lucy Thurber’s Transfers.As two young men from the Bronx vie…
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The food service program operated by the public school system in Springfield, Massachusetts, which has been lauded for its high participation rates, does…
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Jim Shepard’s new book, The Book of Aron, tells the story of a Jewish boy growing up in poverty and desperation. It begins before the Germans invaded…
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In our Ideas Matter segment we take time just about every week to check in with the state humanities councils in our 7-state region.Today, we will learn…
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Six year in the making, The Reproach Of Hunger: Food, Justice, And Money In The Twenty-First Century is a book that looks to answer the simple question is…
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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays including Cat's Eye, Alias Grace, and A Handmaid’s Tale. Her…
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If you’re poor and live in the Capital Region, it’s better to be in Rensselaer County than in Schenectady County or Columbia County. Not only that, the…