Poverty

Paul Ryan's report on the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty was grossly misleading.

To the extent that people have negative feelings about the 1%, the emotion involved isn't envy - it's anger, which isn't at all the same thing.

The poor in America usually get only one chance. Then it is over. Those who were on the street with Christine Pagano in Camden will most likely never have …

President Obama is scheduled to be make a final decision on the pipeline by the middle of 2014.

This American Hustle allows politicians, the media, and the public to wash their collective hands of actually doing anything except demanding that the lazy poor step up to the …

In the state of California it costs roughly seven times more to house one prisoner for a year than it does to send just one child to a college …

A Harvard/CUNY report that predicted as many as 17,000 Americans may die as a result of some states refusing to expand their Medicaid programs under Obamacare has received little …

Paul Ryan says that “the left” is offering Americans “a full stomach and an empty soul.” The truth is that conservatives like Paul Ryan are offering Americans empty stomachs …

Lisa Sullivan and Ryan Mallett-Outtrim report from Venezuela that the country's anti government protests are continuing with no end in sight but continue to lack appeal in low income …

Avner Offer, an economic historian describes neoclassical economics as a “just-world theory,” one that posits that not only do good people get what they deserve but those who suffer …