Tag: poverty
A Hurricane Is Never An Excuse To Mock The Poor
I remember. I remember because I will always love New Orleans. All the residents of the Gulf Coast, or anyone who loved New Orleans – and who was old enough to remember August 29th, 2005 – has mourned the day ever since.
Kids shouldn’t be sent home for lice, but schools can’t ignore the issue either
This article previously appeared on The Washington Post Last night, my 3-year-old daughter made soft, singing noises while she dipped a plastic boat in and out of the bubbles of…
Families Find Shelter From Hurricane Irma
Attorney General Sessions brings tough-on-crime message to Memphis
Appearance coincides with mayor’s, police director’s demands for more city police
Poverty Is Rampant In The U.S., But We Pretend It’s Not
When my older brother and I were in elementary school, the teacher assigned the class to bring a bug into class that was familiar in our neighborhood. My brother, who…
Pell grants put me through college. Now Trump wants to cut them.
I started college when my daughter was only 14 months old. We had been homeless six months earlier. My life up until I discovered I was pregnant had been blissfully…
Trickle Down Devastation: A Single Mom Responds to Trump’s Tax Plan
ATHENS, Ohio – You’re not a single mother. You have a spouse or a partner. You don’t have kids, or if you do, you’re raising them in a two-parent, two-income…
Trump Voters and I Have One Thing in Common: We’re Scared of Losing Medicaid
I recently read about a county in Kentucky that is typical of the kinds of depressed white communities that have dominated the news since Trump’s election. Owsley County is 83…
What Living in a High-Poverty Neighborhood Taught Me About Protests
Photo credits to Dorret. Originally published in TalkPoverty. About 13 years ago, I lived in Charleston, South Carolina, where I was trying to make ends meet as a freelance writer. …