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Poverty

• MLK tackled many issues in his lifetime. Where are we now?
  The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for many issues throughout his life, speaking out against various barriers holding back blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans and Native Americans.April 2, 2018
• Bank of America ends free checking option, a bastion for low-income customers
  The bank is finishing a yearslong phaseout of eBanking, its last option for avoiding fees without keeping a monthly minimum. The move has drawn concerns it will hit low-income customers the hardest.January 25, 2018
• Milwaukee Red Cross policy spurs discrimination allegations
  The American Red Cross of Wisconsin is asking fire victims in some parts of Milwaukee to come to them or nearby police stations because of staff shortages -- a decision that elicited outrage because the areas initially impacted are low-income and overwhelmingly black and Latino.January 3, 2018
• Health care costs push a staggering number of people into extreme poverty
  And half the world's population doesn't even have access to essential health services, according to a report from the World Bank and the World Health Organization.December 14, 2017
• Census Bureau: Median incomes rose and poverty levels fell in 2016
  The number of people covered by health insurance also ticked up. The bureau says the income growth is driven by more people finding jobs rather than increases in salaries.September 13, 2017
• Poor in Miami: Hoping to ride out Irma on bread and cans of tuna
  While local news broadcasts have been dominated by images of people flocking to stores, many low-income residents can't afford to stock up on supplies or drive out of town.September 8, 2017
• In Houston, floods push impoverished residents into crisis
  Poor neighborhoods on the northeast side were hit hard by the storm. But residents say they received little help evacuating, and now they are struggling to get basics: food, water and information.September 1, 2017
• Housing Secretary Ben Carson clarifies comment that poverty is a 'state of mind'
  But Carson says that "how a person thinks" is only one component that contributes to being poor.June 5, 2017
• In some rural counties, hunger is rising, but food donations aren't
  Pantries in southwest Virginia -- where poverty is rampant and coal jobs are vanishing -- will take whatever they can get to stock bare shelves. Some also offer help with health care and job training.May 23, 2017
• Kids who suffer hunger in first years lag behind their peers in school
  When infants and young kids grow up in homes without enough to eat, they're more likely to perform poorly in kindergarten, a study shows. The younger they experienced hunger, the stronger the effect.March 24, 2017
• Gulf between richest and poorest wider than previously thought, Oxfam says
  Last year, Oxfam said the world's richest 62 people had as much money as the poorest 3.6 billion. Turns out those numbers were wrong: The richest nine people had as much wealth as half the planet.January 18, 2017
• Closing the rural, urban poverty gap
  What can be done to help rural Minnesotans who are feeling an economic burden not felt in metropolitan areas?January 18, 2017
• Aspen Ideas Festival: 'Generation Unbound'
  The rate of parents having babies out of wedlock is growing, especially for those who don't have access to quality birth control.July 15, 2015
• Pope's missive on environment, poverty could affect habits of millions
  He has said he believes global warming is a moral, and man-made, issue -- angering climate change skeptics.June 16, 2015
• Dorothy Day Center's time may be up; new homeless facility, new location proposed
  St. Paul's Dorothy Day Center was founded in 1981 and was never meant to be a place where people sleep. Now, up to 250 people cram into that building at night. But change may be coming. The city is proposing a new homeless facility with better services in a new part of the city.December 20, 2013

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