The NYT is not a non-profit organization. Giving away promotional stuff is a way to get people interested in paying for it. To say the NYT is against poor people because it's pedalling a subscription to part of its services is silly. The NYT Online never provided complete access to the newspaper, even though people may believe it did.

ProQuest does. ProQuest is a subscription database that provides same-day, complete subscription access to the whole NYT and many, many other newspapers available online, including the whole Wall Street Journal, today's issue and an archive, indexed and searchable.

ProQuest is provided free of charge to all the citizens of the county I live in, and a considerable number of non-residents, for the price of a library card, which is to say, free with proof of address. The card holder can view these articles anywhere there is an internet connection available, using the card number as the password. The card holder can also visit the library building for access to a free computer with free internet to view it on. The libraries are funded by a combination of private (the majority) and public funding.

I'm willing to bet that this is also true in many other states.

If it really irritates you that much that you can no longer read David Brooks and Maureen Dowd without paying for the privilege, you can find out whether your public library offers free same-day access through a subscription database like ProQuest.

If it does, use it, and don't forget to write them a check once a year. You can write it off your taxes. We, like many non-profits, expect to suffer because of donor exhaustion caused by recent natural disasters. We don't expect much help from the government, except maybe local, but even then not much. (They are suffering too.) We have never gotten much from the Feds.