Co-published with The Guardian. Municipal coffers are being filled by fining those who can least afford it. If fees were tied to wealth, that calculus would shift.

Co-published with Huffington Post. The poor aren't too tempting to thieves individually, but in aggregate they provide a juicy target for anyone depraved enough to make a business of stealing from them.

Co-published with The Daily Beast. While America’s jobs and economy remain flat, it’s getting more expensive to be poor, with everyone from payday lenders to subprime credit cards charging extortionate rates.