In my new article for AlterNet, I enumerate six particularly despicable and dangerous state laws punishing the poor for their poverty. No longer content to merely neglect the needs of the poor, many right wing state governments have become actively abusive – weaponizing public policy, and transforming the arm of governance into an aggressive apparatus of destruction against America’s most vulnerable citizens.

Read the article at AlterNet.

Shortly after the publication of my article, the Daily Report – a radio program in Minneapolis, Minnesota – invited me on to discuss the “war on the poor.” Listen to the discussion at 950 AM, Minneapolis.