This is the Wrong Time to Cut Back on Public Housing
More than half a million Americans are homeless — the size of a large city.
Radical New Leaders Are Reviving Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign
The movement looks to rebuild the cross-racial civil rights alliance disintegrated during a half-century of counter-revolution. Their radical vision is more necessary than ever.
How Poverty, Climate Change, and Bad Policy Put Poor People at Greater Risk of Pest-Borne Diseases
Public health resources are being cut while mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and the West Nile virus flourish in poor communities.
How to Reduce Poverty and Inequality Through State Government Taxes
As the new federal tax law slashes IRS bills for corporations and the wealthy, the momentum is growing for progressive state-level taxes that could recoup some of these resources.
Why We Need to Talk More About Economic Vulnerability
New OECD data reveals nearly 40 percent of people living across 28 of the world’s developed countries are “economically vulnerable.”
Trump Hates the Poor
Trump’s budget proposal has something to hurt almost everyone, but it’s a perfect storm for the poor.
Trump Just Made it Easier to Deny Medicaid to Poor Americans
Corporations get a tax cut and lay off workers, while individual Medicaid recipients will have to provide proof of work status to hold onto their health insurance. That hardly seems fair.
I Live in a ‘Shithole Country.’ It’s Called the United States.
A country’s greatness is measured not by its richest, but by how it treats its most vulnerable members. By that measure, we’re a certified shithole.
A Cruel Holiday Gift for Refugee Families
For 60,000 Haitian immigrants, this holiday season is filled with fear and uncertainty.
The GOP Tax Plan Is Igniting a Movement for a Moral Economy
While Republicans may succeed in scoring a short term win for their donors, their tax plan is sparking a new moral movement against inequality.
10 Reasons to Revive the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign
Inspired by an initiative cut short by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., moral leaders are planning a wave of civil disobedience.
The Government Has Failed the Poor Time and Time Again. Now, They’re Failing the Middle Class,Too.
Since 1980, government programs have been failing America’s poor. The GOP tax legislation essentially re-engineers government to fail America’s middle class, too.
VIDEO: Trump Is All in on the Philippine Drug War
Trump has lavished praised on Duterte’s extrajudicial murders — and Duterte’s envoy to the U.S. is developing a little project called Trump Tower Manila.
Report: I Dream Detroit
The Voice and Vision of Women of Color on Detroit’s Future.
An Anti-Poverty Program That Makes It Pay to Work
The Earned Income Tax Credit may be the most popular bipartisan anti-poverty tool. So why won’t the feds expand it?