Stories of Poverty

Robert Burke has done a bit of everything in his time, he says: timber, farming, truck-driving, scrap metal collecting. But no more. After two serious back surgeries, he’s on disability. He, his...

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For more than thirty years Donna Knapple had worked a number of administrative jobs; for local colleges and, more recently for a company that contracted out janitorial services. Three years ago, her...

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Pregnant at the age of fifteen, Katie Bates dropped out of high school. Over the decade that followed, she had four children and developed a methamphetamine addiction. In 2009, she went through drug...

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