Poverty

National ‘austerity’ pressure to further cut the social safety net only increases the plight of US citizens struggling to survive, as Sasha Abramsky discusses in this excerpt from his …

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

While discussion of poverty has been lacking since President Reagan railed that the poor were responsible for their own plight, new signs of concern and fresh thinking have emerged, …

Voting rights for prisoners and ex-felons is just the logical next step.

In today's On the News segment:President Obama announced that he will ask Congress for authorization for a military strike in Syria; Harvard scientists found that the constant strain of …

African-Americans of the March on Washington for Freedom and Justice generation are more likely to be poor, sick and dependent. We owe them justice.

Moral status or dignity is not tied to a narrow quality or capacity such as medical, mathematical or linguistic knowledge.

Last year about 1 million of the nation's poorest children got a leg up on school through Head Start, the federal program that helps prepare children up to age …

One of the biggest myths about the United States is that it's a mostly ‘middle class’ society, with poverty confined to a minority of the population; the reality is …

More than half of Michigan's 1.4 million black residents now live under rule by unelected emergency managers.