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The High Cost of Poverty: Why the Poor Pay More (5/18/09)
By DeNeen L. Brown, Washington Post

More than 1 in 5 kids live in poverty (6/8/10)
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY

Living wages are key to poverty eradication (6/14/10)
By Joyce Appleby, LA Times

Robert Samuelson's Misguided Portrayal of the New Poverty Measure (6/7/10)
By Michael Laracy, Huffington Post

During Older Americans' Month, Let's Focus on Keeping the Elderly Out of Poverty (5/1/09) By Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director of the Coalition on Human Needs, Featured in the Huffington Post

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