Poverty

With November around the corner, millions of unemployed Americans are looking to the candidates to address job creation, but it seems that neither side truly has the people's interest …

There's a number of critical concerns that get no attention, including some of the worst problems in the United States and the world.

What do General Electric, Koch Industries, Bayer, Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil all have in common? They all rank in the top ten of the Toxic 100.

In a system as segregated as Chicago Public Schools, where a quarter of a million students go to schools where 90 percent or more of their classmates are black …

Housing activist Reyneld Sanon is beginning a tour in the US to raise awareness about Under Tents, the international campaign for housing rights in Haiti.

In the words of Rep. Mike Honda (D-California), co-chair of the Congressional Out-of-Poverty Caucus, these figures are

What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?

We have the money to end poverty in America. We only lack the will.

The 30,000-strong Chicago Teachers Union strikes for the first time in a quarter century.

Despite worries about sagging consumer confidence and shrinking paychecks, business leaders seem unconcerned about the declining standard of living of middle-class America, or about the growing number of American …