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This Week in Poverty: A Little Help for the Long-Term Unemployed?

This Week in Poverty: A Little Help for the Long-Term Unemployed?

230,000 long-term unemployed workers lost their benefits on Sunday and the system is about to get a whole lot worse.

Posted May 18, 2012

Preying on the Poor

Preying on the Poor

How government and corporations use the poor as piggy banks.

Posted May 17, 2012

NATO Meeting Kicks off With Harassment of Protesters, Ominous Warnings to Press

NATO Meeting Kicks off With Harassment of Protesters, Ominous Warnings to Press

Chicago police have wasted no time in employing strong-arm tactics against activists and media gathered for this weekend’s summit.

Posted May 18, 2012

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Books and the Arts

A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.

In The Conflict, the French intellectual takes American mothering to task.

Samuel Beckett wants you to have a less bad day.

Ideas to Power the 99%

News and Analysis

Wisconsin recall supporters

In the June 5 recall election to unseat Gov. Scott Walker and his cronies, grassroots activists are fighting millions in corporate cash.

The first Feminist General Assembly is a model for how OWS can—and can't—work alongside established social movements.

Protests in Cairo

Egyptians go to the polls on May 23 and 24. But heightened tension and deepening unease over every aspect of the political process make it hard to predict what will happen next.

Political watchdogs like PolitiFact and the Washington Post's "Fact-Checker" are accused of favoring Democrats—but it is the facts themselves that have a liberal bias.

Pregnant woman

Few new mothers get paid maternity leave. Those who take unpaid leave often go deep into debt to make ends meet.

Barack Obama

The president’s endorsement of same-sex marriage is a testament to the generations of activists who waged a brave and often lonely battle for gay rights.

Trayvon Martin

From the ethnic studies ban to firings over Travyon Martin, a strange hostility toward progressive education is emerging.

Naomi Klein - Lookout

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Skyrocketing unemployment

Long Term Unemployment Skyrockets
More and more Americans have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. Read more››

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