Chavez: Washington Nemesis, Latin American Hero
What scared Washington most about Chavez was not his failures or idiosyncrasies. It was his success.
Chavez: Lest We Forget
Comparing Hugo Chavez’s accomplishments to his U.S. obits was like taking a trip through Alice’s looking glass.
Prosperity Not Austerity Rally!
A chance to speak out before tax day to say how we want our money spent!
Low Fertility and Labor Shortages Might Save the World
Migration is one of the best mechanisms for reducing poverty.
Poor Visibility
The mainstream media needs to step up its reporting on poverty as a campaign issue.
Record Poverty Persists While Gap Between Rich and Rest of Us Increases
Sadly, those who “occupied” Wall Street and city squares across the country in 2011, were right: All of the income gains have concentrated at the top, while the rest of us saw a deterioration or stagnation in our wages and income.
We Won the War on Poverty, then Lost the Peace
If America could eliminate most serious poverty in the United States in the 1960s, surely we could do the same today.
The 64-Gazillion-Dollar Question
A top authority on poverty has changed his mind about the urgency of fighting inequality.
Low-Wage Nation
Poverty and inequality are threatening our democracy.
Ending Poverty in America, a Discussion with Peter Edelman
Karen Dolan speaks with Georgetown Law professor Peter Edelman to discuss his decades of anti-poverty work and his new book, “So Rich So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty In America.”
This Economy Stinks Worse than You Think
Too many top economic commentators are drawn from a pool of talking heads and economists who treat the welfare of corporations as a top priority.
The Poor as Collateral Damage
There are places where basic food, shelter, health care, and good schools are available to everyone, but not here.
American Poverty, 50 Years Later
Poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money.
Why We Are Not Supporting Jeffrey Sachs to be World Bank President
Even today, Sachs’s approach to development remains top-down and formulaic.
What Do The New World Bank Statistics Really Tell Us?
The statistics upon which most poverty elimination strategies are based are extremely misleading, and often steer experts toward the wrong solutions.