Poverty

This strange twilight moment, in which our experts and systems managers squander resources in attempting to re-create an expanding economic system that is moribund, will inevitably lead to systems …

As California struggles to comply with a court order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state now spends more on its correctional system than …

This punitive approach to poverty has driven poor mothers of color further to the margins of the economy, making them even more politically invisible.

In a journey across expendable communities and people u2013 the collateral damage created by an elite oligarchical and political class u2013 Chris Hedges, along with illustrator Joe Sacco, trenchantly …

More than 70 years after its creation, social security benefits are keeping the elderly above the poverty line.

There are forgotten corners of this country where Americans are trapped in endless cycles of poverty, powerlessness, and despair as a direct result of capitalistic greed. Journalist Chris Hedges …

Bankers may actually be held accountable in latest trading debacle, and other news updates for Monday, July 23, 2012.

Over the past forty years the American worker has gone from riches to rags, not the other way around.

We are losing the very idea of the public good, the notion of connecting learning to social change.

While “post-racial” may mean less overt racism, the idea that we have moved into a post-racial period in American history is an act of willful denial and ignorance.