A new Trump-administration rule will cut food assistance for nearly 700,000 Americans, also affecting many of their relatives and...

In his new book, Chris Arnade lays bare what life is like for America’s marginalized poor – and exposes the broken social systems that...

In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young...

Breitbart led the charge, but Democrats delivered the killing blow. Has anyone really learned? By Zach Carter and Arthur Delaney | The...

Ben Carson’s comments on poverty make sense in the context of Trump’s cruel joke of a budget which punishes low-income people By Jamie...

Today the Guardian kicks off a new project investigating inequality of all kinds, all over the world. Here’s how we plan to approach it –...

Beyond the bubbles of the big cities and elite college campuses is an America that values community over careers, and has faced a...

In a place of poverty, social ills and fractured families, Raul Mendoza, 69, coach of the Chinle, Ariz., Wildcats, is a source of quiet...

Joe Peyronnin, Hofstra Journalism Professor Posted: 09/20/2013 9:19 am The Republican Party is vigorously pursing reductions in the...

Anthony W. Orlando: Lecturer in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Los Angeles  – Posted: 08/25/2013...

Marian Wright Edelman: President, Children’s Defense Fund Posted: 08/09/2013 2:31 pm “I would say that, well, obviously my high school...

Marian Wright Edelman – President, Children’s Defense Fund Posted: 10/05/2012 4:43 pm You know, when we started the farm workers...

Tavis Smiley – PBS talk show host, PRI radio host Posted: 09/07/2012 8:58 am Now that the conventions are over, time to prepare for the...

Tavis Smiley: PBS talk show host, PRI radio host – Posted: 09/05/2012 12:00 am There’s been a lot of talk about “freedom” lately. There...

Barbara Ehrenreich – New York Times bestselling author Posted: 03/15/2012 9:44 am – Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com It’s been exactly...

Marian Wright Edelman: President, Children’s Defense Fund – Posted: 03/ 2/2012 4:44 pm I begin each year with a women’s spiritual retreat...

I participated in a debate Thursday morning on the role of government in poverty reduction. A couple of “curious” points came up from the...

Rep. Chris Van Hollen: Congressman representing Maryland’s 8th District Posted: 02/ 3/2012 9:50 am This post is part of a series on...

Randy Jackson – Grammy Award winning producer Posted: 02/ 1/2012 8:00 am This post is part of a series on childhood poverty in the United...

Jim Neal –About Jim Posted: 10/27/11 06:02 PM ET Yet more numbing news about the breadth and depth of the impoverished in America, a...