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Latest articles
The annual Drug & Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA) conference, held in 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, looks like any other industry gathering. The 600 or so attendees [...]
Apr 9 2013
This piece was written by Susan Faludi and originally published on CNN Editor’s note: Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer-winning journalist and author of “Backlash: The Undecla[...]
Mar 13 2013
Blog
By Jennifer S. Levin, re-posted from her blog: In 2001, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, an exposé about minimum-wage workers, propelled author Barbara Ehrenreich [...]
Mar 15 2013
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Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day, June 18, 2013: As the week-long SNAP Challenge, in which 26 Democratic members of the House of Representatives lived on a food budget of $4.50 per day, draws to a[...]
Jun 18 2013
Wince of the Week
Wince of the Week, June 9-16: The EHRP team winced when we read this, excerpted from The Street’s “Half of U.S. Seniors One ‘Shock’ Away From Poverty, Repor[...]
Jun 14 2013
Radio Interviews
Listen to EHRP writer and journalist Steven Gray discuss his recent article with NPR radio host Michel Martin on “Tell Me More”. Gray talks about the struggles of the s[...]
Sep 17 2012
