For some, these are the boom times. 401ks are surging. The stock market has hit an all-time high.But drive just 350 miles from the nation's capital. And the conversation isn't about how to get rich, but how to survive. McDow County, West Virginia, was once the nation's largest coal producer.It is now one of the poorest places in the country where the food stamp program started and later the opioid crisis took hold. Today, one in three households there depends on those food stamps. And now the program that h ...

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Axios reporting Secretary of State Marco Rubio is secretly holding meetings with the 41-year-old grandson of the former leader Raul Castro. That's according to three sources. It comes as the Miami Herald warns of a rapidly intensifying humanitarian crisis on the island as the government hardens rationing policies amid a USled resource blockade.Poverty and food prices are skyrocketing. One pack of chicken now costing a month's salary. And while blackouts are regular occurrences for so many Cubans, last week ...

[applause] So 50 years and forward. Here we go. Some of you might not realize that, but um and know any of my background, but I was born in a very small island in the middle of the Atlantic. I grew up in a very small farm in the middle of the Amazon in South America and in my teenage years grew up in a very small mining town in the middle of South Africa.This background has opened up a world and for me that world was food. It was all about food. We grew up in a world where food was scarce.We were poor. Not ...

Angela Rayner, a former deputy prime minister who grew up in poverty, is the betting market’s current favourite. Yet she is not entirely squeaky clean herself https://t.co/hOz5ikQMk1 ...

RT Jack Salmon (@_JackSalmon_)New paper extends poverty data back to 1939 using consistent post-tax, post-transfer income.Biggest surprise: absolute poverty fell faster before the War on Poverty than after. The largest gains came from growth, not transfers. https://t.co/dVXd3gtuHr ...

Hello everyone. How you after yourself? How can I live with hope for the future? If you find it, if you find it hard to find hope, I have something to share with you through this speech. Actually in Japan surveys showed that many young people carry quite anxieties about what lies ahead. Yet my grandparents often told me young people today are fortunate they don't know hardship and my grandparents used to tell me about their experiences during the war every time we met. They spoke of how there wasn't enough ...

With food insecurity in the United States on the increase and cutbacks in SNAP food assistance, millions of Americans turn to local food banks to feed their families. Tami Wilson is COO of Feeding Westchester, which distributes 20 million pounds of food a year just north of New York City. She gave us a behind-the-scenes look at what they do every day to collect and distribute food to the needy.How do you get the food. How does it come to you. -Sure.So we have a variety of ways that we get food. We get food ...

RT Tyler Oliveira (@tyleraloevera)🚨Welcome to Kiryas, Joel: A village of 44,000 Hasidic Jews in up-state New York living off the teat of welfare programs and according to Jewish Talmudic law.-99% of this village’s residents are Hasidic Jews-they speak primarily Yiddish-40% live below the federal poverty line-40-60% receiving SNAP assistance-reports estimate an average of 7 children per woman, some of the highest fertility rates in the developed world.-median age is 15 years old-almost all children attend pr ...

RT Avi (@AviFelman)It’s true! Prior to capitalism there was no poverty there was just death.Now you can be completely useless and still live ...