Does the United States Have a ‘Strong’ Economy?
For average Americans, the U.S. economy hardly merits any kudos. Two new data dumps make that reality even plainer.
Trump Launches Aggressive Poverty Disinformation Campaign
The middle class is starting to look poor, but the president’s Council of Economic Advisers now argues that not even the poor are poor—all the better to cut programs that serve both groups.
Report: Students Under Siege
How the school-to-prison pipeline, poverty, and racism endanger our school children
Trump’s War On the Poor Has Just Begun
Anti-poverty programs are quickly becoming less accessible as the Trump administration claims the “War on Poverty” is “largely over and a success.”
Why I Got Arrested This Summer (And You Should, Too)
With 43 percent of Americans in or near poverty, most of us know there’s something deeply wrong with our democracy. Will we stand up for it?
Hundreds of Poor People’s Campaign Activists Got Themselves Arrested for Racial Justice
While some white people were calling the cops on people of color, others joined them — and members of every other community — in a huge sweep of actions in state capitals.
The Moral Revolution America Needs
Poor people of all races are shifting the national conversation on poverty and race from “right vs. left” to “right vs. wrong”
Building a United Working Class in North Carolina
Down Home North Carolina is organizing a multiracial movement to restore power to the state’s working people.
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.