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Awareness and activism about the threat poverty poses to childhood health is growing.

Japanese government $500 million ice wall is a precarious, temporary fix, not a permanent solution to the radioactive water leaking from stricken nuclear reactors.

Bad jobs are increasing because in a weak labor market, workers can't find anything better.

California's mass prison hunger strike ended on Day 60 after two state legislators issued statements of public support for reform of conditions that have had hundreds locked in solitary …

Morna McDermott has mapped the Common Core State Standard Initiative's corporate connections in a chart that illustrates the corporate takeover of public education.

While the Golden State may be sitting on an oil fortune, the California coast is all too familiar with offshore drilling catastrophes.

Our democracy? Really? Is the U.S. system a democracy, and if so, does it belong to us?

You need to know this. The G20 summit in Russia is officially underway, and it's being dubbed an international showdown.

Over the last year, a religious antipoverty organization has met with U.S. Treasury and White House officials to encourage them to declare the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad …

The Supreme Court majority has made it more attractive for employers to violate immigration laws by hiring workers suspected of not being in this country legally.