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September—Mid-October 2026 Reading Round Up:
How Older Homeowners Are Losing Their Biggest Asset...
Corporate Welfare — Explained for Everyday Folks
The Real Welfare Queens
July Reading Round-Up...
Rising Health Care Premiums And Deductibles Equal...
"The Happiness Of The People"
Inequality In Stock Market Investment
New Medicaid Work Requirements (Including The June 1, 2026 Interpretive Rule Overlay)
Reading Round-Up: May, 2026
Inflation Pain
Reading Round-Up, April 2026:
Inequality In The Age Of Trump
Pockets Of Poverty...
Mortgage Foreclosures Are Increasing...
The Power Of Song
Power Of The People
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Today's Political Climate...
U.S. Poverty In 2025...
The Poverty Trap's Most Popular Posts: 2025
Social Safety Net Programs: Part II
Social Safety Net Programs: Part I
The SNAP Benefit Saga Is Not Over...
Food Assistance Or No Food Assistance?
Chronic Illness Equals Chronic Debt...
The Legacy Of Two Icons, A Different Inequality, And Vaccine Hesitancy
The Presidential Speech We All Need To Hear...
Labor Day Reading: Workers And The Environment
"And Justice For All"...
Now It's Middle-Income Americans Who Are Priced Out of The Home Ownership Market...
Predatory Lenders Will Swoop In For The Kill...
I Was On Medicaid And Food Stamps...
As The "Big Beautiful Bill" Makes Its Way Through The Senate...
What We Are Losing And Why We Must Protest
Graft Like Our Country Has Never Seen: Our Government Is Literally Taking From The Poor To Give To The Rich...
The Medicaid Debacle
Link Round-Up: The Short-Changed Working Class, Why Tariffs Are A Tax On The Poor, A Leg Up Through The Generations, And What We Must Do NOW To Fight!
The Lies That Sow Distrust In Government And Threaten Our Democracy:
Thoughts On Poverty...
The Working Homeless...
Goodbye to February...Video Clip And Link Roundup:
The Death Of The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Fair Shot...
The Poverty Trap's Most Popular Posts: 2024
Is Scrooge Our New Role Model?
What Does An Informed Electorate Look Like?
The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class
The Strange Correlation Between Vaccination Rates and Political Parties...
Ohio's Governor On Pet Eating...And The Demonizing of Immigrants
Generational Wealth Has Always Been An Unacknowledged Form Of Affirmative Action...
Is The U.S. Economy "Rigged" In Favor Of The Wealthy & Against The Poor & Middle Class?
Rents Are Still Rising, Corporate Landlords Are Getting Richer And Tenants Are Getting...Sicker?
Red States Continue To Turn Down Federal Money, And Their Residents Suffer Because Of It.
A Holiday & Weekend Reading List...
Are You An ALICE?
Elite College Admissions May Be Based More On Wealth Than Brains...
President Biden And Poverty:
This Is What We Choose To Preserve...
A Robust Industrial Policy
A Few Weekend Readings: (Somewhat) Good Climate News, Dollar Stores Are Closing, and Medicaid Takes Your Home Post-Mortem
What You Need To Know About Your Mortgage Lender & Your Mortgage Servicer...
Is The U.S. Economy "Rigged" In Favor Of The Wealthy & Against The Poor & Middle Class?
Where Climate Change Meets Gentrification...
A Round-Up Of Positive News, Part II:
A Round-Up Of Positive News Part I: The Environment
Medical Debt Is Crushing Millions Of Americans, Part II
Private Health Insurers Routinely Deny Potentially Life-Saving Treatments To Cut Costs
The Latest Trend: Live In Your Car, Parking Lot Provided.
Higher Education Should Lead To More Than A Job
Are First-Time Home Buyers Shut Out Of The Market?
Change Is A Comin'...
The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class
"Unity Is Strength"
Inflation Is Going Down, Food Prices Continue To Rise —
Predatory Home Buyers
Are For-Profit Health Insurance Providers Denying You Federally Funded Health Care?
Pedestrian Deaths Are Soaring
Reflections On Why The Poor Stay Poor In America
Noise Pollution Affects Nearly Everyone
Does Remote Work Shift The Balance Of Power From Your Boss To You? Maybe.
It Can Be A Full Time Job To Get Your Unemployment Benefits
The Unemployment Compensation System Lets Too Many People Fall Through The Cracks...
Work Requirements For Food & Medicaid Benefits
Do Older Americans Have A Harder Time Getting A Mortgage?
The Cost of Borrowing Is Sky High
Taxes and Poverty
Condominium Deconversion
Ohio's Toxic Train Derailment
How Big Corporations Keep Us Poor...
White Collar Crime
Critical Thinking
Creating Increased "Fairness" In Our Economy
The Poetry of Divisive Concepts
The Cost of Prescription Drugs Is Over The Top...
Medical Debt Is Crushing Millions of Americans
Urban Sprawl With Little Regulation
There's Still Time...
Are Secret Algorithms Responsible For Your Rent Hike?
Is A Small Western Town An Anomaly Or Prediction?