Poverty

Elaine's work re-imagines risk prevention beyond prepping: the meaningful steps that communities, organizations and governments should take long before the first sirens go off.

The wealthy elite and the republican party have drawn a line in the sand, they do not wish to help the American people at any cost to themselves.

Contrarians of the world should unite to identify and challenge these ruling ideas.

Immigrants have long looked to public education as the pathway to prosperity, through schools that offer their kids a springboard to the American Dream. Yet many learn the hard …

For the more than 40 million Americans in poverty, everyday life is a struggle.

Paul Krugman: “If progress against poverty has been disappointing over the past half century, the reason is not the decline of the family, but the rise of extreme inequality.”

Annelise Orleck: Though the War on Poverty failed to address the structural reasons poverty is so widespread in America, it did bring about badly needed changes including addressing childhood …

Progressives should make clear the political and moral imperative of committing the resources of democratic government to achieving a just and equitable economy.

Henry Giroux: Cultivating the radical imagination, civic education and critical modes of literacy are central to producing an informed citizenry, but even more so to constituting any viable notion …

As The Hunger Games trilogy gains popularity, its themes of class inequality, poverty, class warfare and oppression gain prominence across the globe.