Poverty

Philly’s Zero Fare Transit Program Has Been Extended

July 6, 2026 Pryce Jamison, Next City. Create! Free Transit, Philadelphia, Poverty, Transportation

In 2020, the City of Philadelphia found that 39% of residents living in poverty pointed to transportation as their biggest challenge when finding and sustaining employment. Three years later, the city allocated $62 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to subsidize a two-year pilot of the new Zero Fare Program. The program, which became the country’s largest low-barrier transit program for low-income riders, distributed 25,000 SEPTA Key cards to low-income Philadelphians, allowing them unlimited free rides on SEPTA buses, subways, trolleys, and regional rail lines.

No One Should Be In Jail Because They’re Poor

July 2, 2026 Jeremy Cherson, In These Times. Organize! Bail Reform, History, Mass Incarceration, Poverty, Prison

It was a chilly spring day when Nicole, now a 31-year-old medical social worker in Tulsa, Oklahoma, opened an unsolicited letter from a criminal defense attorney. The letter informed her that she had been charged with a felony and might have a warrant for her arrest. Nicole had never had a run-in with the law. A single mother of three, she had spent her career helping others navigate the very systems she now found herself caught in. An eyewitness to a robbery had identified her as a suspect. Soon after, she was formally charged. A judge set her bail at $50,000.

Inside The Lives Of West Bank Workers Crushed By Israel’s Labor Ban

April 17, 2026 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Labor Ban, Palestine, Poverty, West Bank, Worker Rights

Bir Nabala, a ghost town of abandoned houses and empty streets, is surrounded by the Israeli separation wall and was once a vibrant middle-class community. Its diverse businesses benefited from the town’s strategic location north of Jerusalem, which made it one of the city’s important gateways. Then the wall cut Bir Nabala off, killing its commercial life overnight and turning it into a remote village on the far edges of Ramallah. Residents have since been gradually leaving the town. The Israeli wall stretches across the horizon in the village from edge to edge. Lining the streets are a few scattered workshops that continue to function, buried in the silence of empty neighborhoods.

The Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society

March 10, 2026 Najeeb VR, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperative Network, Cooperatives, India, Poverty

In 1925, before the communist movement was established in southwestern India, the followers of the social reformer Vayaleri Kunhikannan Gurukkal, also known as Sri Vagbhatananda Guru, (1885–1939) founded the Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society (ULCCS) to provide construction workers with social protection. Today, the ULCCS is Asia’s largest workers’ cooperative, and it was ranked second in the 2021 World Cooperative Monitor list of industry and utilities cooperatives. United Nations Development Programme Resident Coordinator in India Lise Grande calls it a model cooperative whose success provides ‘great lessons for the rest of the world’.

The War On Drugs Or The War On The Poor?

February 15, 2026 Laura Capote, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Colombia, Drug War, Neoliberalism, Poverty

The constant insistence of the US discourse on the war on drugs seems to reflect a moral crusade by successive US administrations to rid their country of drug use. However, the truth is far removed from this simplistic idea that is often perpetuated by the mass media. In reality, what the so-called “War on Drugs” seeks to achieve, as demonstrated by our region’s history, is a facade for the development of various mechanisms of imperialist intervention that, since the 1970s, have involved a combination of methods ranging from military financing to countries in the region, the installation of military bases, and even explicit support for certain candidates in electoral contests.

Migration Is An Underdevelopment Issue

February 6, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Development, Global South, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Migration, Poverty

In 2014, the United Nations’ International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched the Missing Migrants Project. The project, which ‘hosts the only open-access database of records of deaths during migration on the global level’, estimates that at least 33,220 migrants have died or disappeared while crossing the Mediterranean Sea since 2014. This is a very low estimate because the IOM admits that it cannot account for every boat that leaves the North African coast, let alone trace those that never arrive in Europe. South of the Mediterranean lies the Sahara Desert, where the dangers are even greater.

Amid Federal Cuts, Momentum For Direct Cash Is Growing

January 9, 2026 Tracey Yeung and Leila Reynolds, Inequality.org. Create! Basic Income, Direct Cash, Poverty, Washington State

Over a quarter of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and have less than $1,000 in emergency savings. This means there’s no buffer when the car breaks down or an unexpected hospital bill hits. Congress’ cuts to SNAP and Medicaid will worsen this crisis for working families, as millions of people lose money to buy groceries and face higher health-care premiums and less coverage. In Washington state, advocates and community leaders have stepped up in recent years to enact direct cash programs to support people struggling to make ends meet.

Still The Golden State?

January 3, 2026 Mark Kreidler, Scheer Post. Educate! California, Housing, Poverty, wealth inequality

California is nothing if not a land of contrast. It is a state of astounding economic might, yet it carries the highest poverty rate in the nation. It has more residents on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans than any other state, but also has the most homeless people — nearly 25% of the entire U.S. total. And even as it touts its standing as the world’s fourth-largest economy, state or country, the gap between the rich and poor in California remains near historic highs. Wealthy residents enjoyed skyrocketing investment returns during the pandemic and into the A.I. boom, while low-income workers were laid off service economy jobs and then ate into their savings — if they had them — in order to survive.

Decline And Fall

December 30, 2025 Chris Hedges, Consortium News. Educate! British Empire, History, Poverty, US Empire

At the start of the 20th century, the British Empire was, like our own, in terminal decline. Sixty percent of Englishmen were physically unfit for military service, as are 77 percent of American youth. The Liberal Party, like the Democratic Party, while it acknowledged the need for reform, did little to address the economic and social inequalities that saw the working class condemned to live in substandard housing, breathe polluted air, be denied basic sanitation and health care and forced to work in punishing and poorly paid jobs.

Starving The Safety Net

December 30, 2025 Kalena Thomhave, Dollars and Sense. Educate! Austerity, Food Security, Poverty, SNAP, Trump Administration

At the start of November, while the government was shut down due to a lapse in federal appropriations, millions of families across the United States abruptly lost access to food assistance. For the first time since the creation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, commonly called “food stamps”) in the 1960s, the federal government chose not to fund benefits during a shutdown. The Trump administration broke with decades of precedent, followed by both Democratic and Republican administrations, by allowing the nation’s largest anti-hunger program to grind to a halt.

Basic Income In Canada Is Closer Than You Think

December 30, 2025 Nancy Wilson, Rabble. Create! Canada, Parliament, Poverty, Universal Basic Income

Although few people would explicitly declare that poor people are morally deficient, our welfare systems are nonetheless designed around suspicion rather than support. Like many social assistance policies, opposition to guaranteed income is driven by a deep-seated fear of fraud — of “freeloaders” benefiting from the taxes of hard-working, morally upright citizens. Our collective delusion that we live in a meritocracy is operationalized into a punitive framework that rationalizes who deserves help and who does not. As a result, we spend enormous administrative effort policing eligibility, while leaving many people without adequate help.

World Bank Miracle: How To Show Rising Poverty As Declining!

December 29, 2025 Utna Patnaik, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! China, India, Poverty, Propaganda, World Bank

Of late, there have been several academic papers and media write-ups on the World Bank’s 2025 claim of steeply declining extreme poverty in the world, especially in Asia. It would be wonderful if this was true, but it is not true. This claim is spurious, arising from a statistical legerdemain that the World Bank and governments have practiced for many decades, ignoring all criticism. For half a century, they have repeatedly underestimated poverty line expenditure until by now their poverty lines are so incredibly low that they do not permit human survival.

Climate Change Accelerates California’s Cost-Of-Living Crisis

December 22, 2025 Aaron Cantú, Scheer Post. Educate! California, climate crisis, Displacement, Environment, Poverty

When California adopted a law to regulate greenhouse gases 23 years ago — the first state in the nation to do so — it focused on the future dangers of global warming. But while California’s emissions have declined, they have kept rising globally, and the climate has worsened. Now, in an effort to build back momentum, advocates are bringing attention to current-day harms driven by climate change. Among those affected by rising temperatures is Amanda Nevarez, who was left homeless by the Eaton Fire, one of two wildfires in Los Angeles County that together destroyed more than 16,000 homes and buildings and killed 31 people last January.

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