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D.C.’s High Housing Costs Pushed Me In and Out of Homelessness for 30 Years

Waldon Adams
Sudanese children sitting on a wall
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U.S. Military Actions Help Create Poverty Overseas. Now Trump Is Blocking Poor Immigrants.

Azza Altiraifi
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A Surge In Financial Aid Audits Is Trapping Low-Income College Students

Chase Ramos
Anti-gentrification activists protest for Chicago affordable housing
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How Chicago Is Making its Own Affordable Housing Crisis Worse

Shelli Nicole
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Poverty Isn’t Neglect, But the State Took My Children Anyway

Elizabeth Brico
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My Criminal Record Kept Me Poor For 30 Years. A New Law Will Finally Let Me Move On.

Donna H.
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I Spent 13 Years in Jail. Not Being Able to Vote Makes it Feel Like a Life Sentence.

LaShanna Tyson
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We Voted for a Union at Columbia and We’re Willing to Fight For It

Tiffany J. Huang, Berenike Schott & Daniel Tadmon
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Trump Is Rewriting Our Immigration Law To Come After Families Like Mine

Mirka Estrada
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Watching Tucker Carlson Eats At My Soul. Here’s Why I Do It Anyway.

Madeline Peltz
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There Is No Summer Vacation for Parents in the Gig Economy

Debbie Weingarten
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I’ve Worked for Tips for 60 Years. D.C. Council Should Listen to the Voters Who Want to Raise My Wages.

Venorica Tucker

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