Poverty

Rather than supporting effective policing techniques that can help to prevent crime, Conservatives are throwing millions of dollars at more high-tech things, like armor and weaponry for SWAT teams, …

The Department of Labor ruled that arbitrary obstacles in Florida's process violate federal civil rights protections.

On Earth Day, a new alternative government, the Green Shadow Cabinet, was announced. Its over 80 members are leaders in their fields, from medicine to art to activism, and …

In today's On the News segment: The wealth gap has become increasingly racialized, and more.

Truthout interviews Marc Mauer, author of

Nestle is proposing to gain access to the spring via a water exchange with Cascade Locks.

Racial stereotypes and the ‘politics of respectability’ have politicized and deeply undermined the very concept of society's collective responsibility to care for the less fortunate.

Debates in countries over laws to curb tax evasion miss the point, according to Richard D. Wolff.

Robert Reich: Anyone who wants to understand the dis-uniting of America needs to see how dramatically we're segregating geographically by income and wealth.

There are new and even historic anti-poverty proposals in this budget. But the better they are, the more they fall into the hard to get category.