Black poverty in Baltimore has racial causes that are invisible to most people. Dickens would understand.
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Why Baltimore Blacks Are Down and Out
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GOP Budget Proposes Gruel Cuts
Mean-spirited legislators who seek to cut food stamps and other programs for the poor bear more than a little resemblance to the workhouse authorities in “Oliver Twist.”
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Raised in Foster Care, Saved by Oates
Joyce Carol Oates’ Wonderland Quartet provided a lifeline for this woman who grew up in foster care.
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Unemployment & “the Undeserving Poor”
Are those who will lose unemployment insurance tomorrow deserving or undeserving of support? George Bernard Shaw has something to say about that.
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Life for the Poor Is No Crystal Stair
NYT columnist Charles Blow appears to be channeling Langston Hughes as he gives advice to the poor.
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Grapes of Wrath, Still Relevant
Life today is a far cry from the Great Depression, but Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” is still relevant.
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Gingrich Auditions for a Dickens Villain
Newt Gingrich’s proposal that poor children be allowed to serve as janitors in their schools calls for a Dickensian response.
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Is America Selling Its Soul?
The 1941 film “The Devil and Daniel Webster” is unsettling by how relevant to our current day economic crisis is its story of America selling its soul.
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