Poverty

Hard times have found a new neighborhood - in the suburbs.

What if President Obama had rejected conventional political advice and pushed for a new New Deal? What if an effective nonaligned left had pushed for such a program, economist …

Relentlessly, the fighting continues.

On July 28, Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr issued an order transferring control of the department back to the city of Detroit and recently elected Mayor Mike Duggan.

A key committee of the World Bank’s governing board Wednesday spurned appeals to revise a draft policy statement that, according to nearly 100 civil-society groups, risks rolling back …

Poverty is structural, created by policies and practices that benefit some people at excruciating cost to others - particularly people of color and women.

Once you get past the feel-good bipartisan hype, the truth is that this year's Paul Ryan excrescence in the form of his poverty plan is only a slight variation …

It shouldn't be a surprise that a man with as much wealth and power as Paul Ryan would propose a poverty plan that does very little to fight poverty.

On Friday, July 18, thousands of people marched through downtown Detroit to call attention to a major public health crisis as the city shuts off the water for residents …

Since the 1996 welfare reform bill, low-income women get little financial help raising children, and then their poverty is used as a strike against them.