
Low-Wage Nation
Poverty and inequality are threatening our democracy.
Poverty and inequality are threatening our democracy.
School segregation by class is the norm in the United States.
Paul Ryan’s 2013 budget shows not only that the GOP is wildly out of touch with average Americans, but that they lack the ability to lead us anywhere but off a cliff.
It may be difficult to face facts in an election year, but the fact is that Social Security retirement benefits are just too low.
The “ample safety net” that Mitt referenced during an interview with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien would be shredded if his policies were to be enacted.
The people who can least afford it are bearing the brunt of Washington’s austerity.
The supercommittee shouldn’t have considered this unreasonable, unprincipled, and unfair cost-cutting plan.
After that Rose Garden speech, it looks like maybe I didn’t dance for you in vain.
The tea party and its ilk offer us only cold cups of bitter tea while serving up fountains of champagne to the super-rich, Wall Street, and big corporations.
The Great Depression taught Americans that the costs of unemployment and poverty are shared by all of us.
Entitlements include many of the basic programs that have raised the U.S. standard of living since the FDR administration and before.
As long as the poor remain invisible and voiceless, homelessness and hunger will continue to grow.
There’s just no other way to balance the budget.
Massive spending cuts will make the future bleaker for millions of Americans.
Understandably, the public is now angry at Rep. Ryan and his Republican cohorts.