New York Airport Workers Organize to End Two-Tier Wage System New York Airport Workers Organize to End Two-Tier Wage System
Passenger service workers earn significantly lower wages than the largely unionized airline employees with whom they work. Now they’re organizing to change that.
Nov 26, 2013 / Allegra Kirkland
A Crowd-Sourced Escape From Poverty? A Crowd-Sourced Escape From Poverty?
An Internet fairy tale for the age of austerity: Linda Tirado’s essay about being poor and making bad decisions could catapult her into the middle-class.
Nov 25, 2013 / Michelle Goldberg
This Week in Poverty: Anti-Poverty Leaders Discuss the Need for a Shared Agenda This Week in Poverty: Anti-Poverty Leaders Discuss the Need for a Shared Agenda
Anti-poverty leaders discuss the need to move from just playing defense to working together to achieve a shared agenda.
Nov 25, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Tantalizing Mockery of Thanksgiving, 1931 This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Tantalizing Mockery of Thanksgiving, 1931
President Hoover's holiday proclamation was offensive to millions of poor and unemployed Americans, our 'Drifter' columnist wrote.
Nov 23, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Right-Wing Author Abandons Cultural Populism, Decries ‘White Trash’ Right-Wing Author Abandons Cultural Populism, Decries ‘White Trash’
Charlotte Hays’s “When Did White Trash Become the New Normal?” reveals a right that’s stopped masking its contempt for average Americans.
Nov 21, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg
Inequality Is (Literally) Killing America Inequality Is (Literally) Killing America
As the disparity between rich and poor has grown, so have gaps in life expectancy between counties, towns, and even neighborhoods.
Nov 20, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
JPMorgan Agrees to Historic Settlement—Is It Enough? JPMorgan Agrees to Historic Settlement—Is It Enough?
The settlement with one of the nation’s biggest banks is historic—what should be next?
Nov 20, 2013 / George Zornick
Just Deserts Just Deserts
Being poor in the United States has rarely meant anything so simple as having too little money.
Nov 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Szalai
Labor Board Sides With Workers: Walmart Can’t Silence Employees Any Longer Labor Board Sides With Workers: Walmart Can’t Silence Employees Any Longer
A landmark ruling by the National Labor Relations Board says Walmart unlawfully harassed and fired employees for protesting.
Nov 19, 2013 / Peter Dreier
CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts
Members of Business Roundtable, a corporate lobby advocating for cuts to retirees’ benefts, have retirement acounts more than 1,200 times the size of the median American work...
Nov 19, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter