Poverty

The Washington consensus on economic policy has been used to inflict neoliberalism.

The cost of living in most major metropolitan areas is on the rise, while wages are down.

Frances Moore Lappe: There is a solution to hunger and it is democracy, not food.

Women's leadership has meant the production of almost 3 million extra meals each year.

n Detroit, on MLK Day, hundreds gathered to rally and protest against the persistent nightmares of inequality in urban cities nationwide.

Important issues like creeping authoritarianism are being buried in the fog of manufactured crises.

Obama's presidency has nothing to do with the legacy of King, it's actually the opposite.

For King, his calling as a minister required a fundamental assessment of capital.

To date, Obama has pardoned less than two dozen and commuted even fewer sentences.

Rockaway residents get to know each other, show ingenuity while working in solidarity to provide relief from devastation wrought by Superstorm Sandy and the apparent indifference/incompetence of state relief …