This Week in Poverty: Poverty Tour 2.0 Hits the Battleground States (VIDEO) This Week in Poverty: Poverty Tour 2.0 Hits the Battleground States (VIDEO)
Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West’s Poverty Tour 2.0 arrived in Virginia, and high school students had a lot to say about their own struggles with poverty.
Sep 14, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
Strike Against Inequality Strike Against Inequality
A strike in the country's most segregated school district is about more than union politics.
Sep 14, 2012 / StudentNation / Christie Thompson
Is America Broke? Not With a Robin Hood Tax Is America Broke? Not With a Robin Hood Tax
The country should look to Congressman Keith Ellison, not Paul Ryan for a fiscal vision.
Sep 14, 2012 / John Nichols
Astra Taylor: Your Debt Is Not Your Fault! Astra Taylor: Your Debt Is Not Your Fault!
Occupy activists are moving debt from the personal to the political.
Sep 13, 2012 / The Nation
Isolating America’s Workers Isolating America’s Workers
The pendulum swings hard against the rights of labor.
Sep 13, 2012 / Feature / Craig Becker and Judith Scott
Rewriting Antitrust Law Rewriting Antitrust Law
Helping the big get bigger, the strong get stronger.
Sep 13, 2012 / Feature / Herman Schwartz
Two Lockouts, a Strike and a Pizza Two Lockouts, a Strike and a Pizza
Chicago teachers, NFL referees and NHL players have one thing in common: they are learning that there are two sets of rules in twenty-first-century America.
Sep 13, 2012 / Dave Zirin
Welcome to ‘Poverty Day’: The One Time of Year When America Cares About the Poor Welcome to ‘Poverty Day’: The One Time of Year When America Cares About the Poor
We need to stop looking at poverty as a separate phenomenon from the rest of the economy—an economy with a proliferation of low-wage jobs and a weak and inequitable recovery.
Sep 13, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
Chris Hedges: The Absurdity of American Empire Chris Hedges: The Absurdity of American Empire
What happens when you force communities, families and entire ecosystems to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace?
Sep 13, 2012 / Francis Reynolds
Mitt Romney, Monsanto Man Mitt Romney, Monsanto Man
In his Bain years, the GOP nominee helped fashion Monsanto into a biotech giant. What would the notorious purveyor of genetically modified foods get from a Romney presidency?
Sep 12, 2012 / Wayne Barrett