Poverty

Oddly enough, media “experts” present their fight against free higher education as advocacy for the poor.

Even if we accept that full employment is especially important for the most disadvantaged groups, there is still the question of how we get there.

When House Republicans seek budget savings, they revert to hitting programs for vulnerable people with limited incomes.

We are a nation on lock down in more ways than we always see.

Activists are championing laws that shift the costs of poverty wages from communities to corporations.

Efforts to fix the water crises in Flint, Michigan, and Haiti must address the underlying injustices that created them.

Retail jobs may be keeping workers from rising up the career ladder, exacerbating our country's growing inequality.

Despite having initially proclaimed a surge of refugees into the US a “humanitarian crisis,” President Obama has repeatedly made clear that he does not think Central American children qualified …

The decline of the middle class suggests fewer people feel they belong to the nation's economic and cultural bedrock.

Schools in poor neighborhoods turned into community schools - combining rigorous instruction with a broad social support system.