MTV Act Blog

7 Nov 2012
LivingOnOne2-Feature

Photo: Sean Leonard, Zach Ingrasci, Chris Temple and Ryan Christoffersen on the craziest journey of their lives. (Facebook)

In the United States, the official guidelines define poverty as an individual income below $11,170 a year. That's an average of $30.60 or less per person, each day -- for food, housing, medical costs, education, clothing, the works. Add a spouse and kids and that daily rate dwindles significantly. Within this range, a person's health and livelihood are at risk. Within this range, life is considered unmanageable, often dangerous. Now get this: Across the planet, more than one billion people are surviving on less than $1 a day. 

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Lumineers-Feature

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Bimonthly, we'll take an artist on the rise on the MTV Music Meter and, to help you discover them a little more, detail some of their philanthropic tendencies -- from Mika to Ellie Goulding. This week: The Lumineers!

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Sophia-Feature2

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Last night Twitter went wild as people were glued to the news and announcements on winners were made. Learning that Barack Obama had been reelected as president of the United States was the biggest Twitter trend of the night and in Twitter history, but there was also a lot of talk about women and politics, and Sophia Bush had good news to share!

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Candidates-Feature

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It's over! What a season of politics that will forever go down in the history books! President Barack Obama was re-elected, and Governor Mitt Romney gracefully took the loss -- but both agree Washington must work together to get us really going. For the past year Romney and Obama have gone head to head on the campaign trail, and we think it's time they go hand in hand.

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The votes are in and it's official now: Barry has been re-elected as the Prez of America. Now onto the second most important news of the day -- what the celebrities wore to the polling stations! We kid, we kid, but seriously stars got their political swag on while voting yesterday. From Beyoncé to Miley Cyrus, we've got 10 super stylish celebs who showed their true colors: red, white and blue and beyond!

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6 Nov 2012
Macklemore-Feature

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If you know who Macklemore is, awesome! If you don't, it's all good 'cause you're about to learn about a rapper that's like no other.

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FarEast-Feature

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The boys of Far East Movement sure know how to make people dance, but today the “Like A G6” hit-makers wanna make you do something else: vote. We recently sat down with half of the dynamic foursome at ArjanWrites.com's ARTIST #TALK in NYC to discuss the importance of rockin’ the vote!

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Perry-Feature

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Election Day is finally here!!!! Katy Perry, who is super excited about Election Day, of course has a special outfit for it.

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Will-Feature

Photo: MTV Act's Sian Pierre kicking it with will.i.am.

Election Day is today and will.i.am is making sure his voice is heard. At a recent party for his new eco-conscious style venture EKOCYCLE, the music mogul carved out some time to talk politics, and talked about his new song, "#GreatTimes."

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Photo: Becca Frucht getting some voting real talk from Talib Kweli . (MTV)

Need more pop star peer pressure to get you to the polls today?! No problemo. We sat down with Passion Pit, Miike Snow, Talib Kweli and more amazing artists to get their take on why young people need to vote TODAY!

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