This Week in Poverty: Five Things You Might Have Missed on ‘Poverty Day’ This Week in Poverty: Five Things You Might Have Missed on ‘Poverty Day’
Poverty Day--the one day every year when the mainstream media turns its attention to the poor--was last week. Here are five things you might have missed amidst the frenzy of covera...
Sep 27, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
The Real Hunger Games The Real Hunger Games
Waiting lists for food aid have been growing for years—now almost 15 percent of the nation’s elderly don’t have enough to eat.
Sep 25, 2013 / Feature / Trudy Lieberman
The Complicated Politics of Self-Exploitation The Complicated Politics of Self-Exploitation
As the wealth gap grows, so have the number of ways a woman can sell her body. What is the cost?
Sep 25, 2013 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
The GOP’s No Good, Very Bad Food Stamp Cuts The GOP’s No Good, Very Bad Food Stamp Cuts
The Republican argument in favor of food stamp cuts lives in an alternate reality.
Sep 20, 2013 / George Zornick
This Week in Poverty: New Data, Same Story (and Same Dangerous House Republicans) This Week in Poverty: New Data, Same Story (and Same Dangerous House Republicans)
The new Census data on poverty doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know--nothing will change without a formidable political movement.
Sep 20, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
America’s Shameful Poverty Stats America’s Shameful Poverty Stats
That so many of our political leaders tolerate so much misery amid so much plenty is one of the great scandals of our age.
Sep 18, 2013 / Sasha Abramsky
Poverty Rate and Income Stagnate as Conservatives Attack the Safety Net Poverty Rate and Income Stagnate as Conservatives Attack the Safety Net
On the fifth anniversary of the financial collapse, new Census data shows that the modest uptick in the economy has failed to reach poor- and middle-class Americans.
Sep 17, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
Poverty in 2013: When Even Diapers Are a Luxury Poverty in 2013: When Even Diapers Are a Luxury
Being a poor mother in the United States today means reusing diapers and struggling to afford food. But House Republicans think they have it too easy.
Sep 11, 2013 / Column / Katha Pollitt
This Week in Poverty: John Lewis, Barack Obama and the New March This Week in Poverty: John Lewis, Barack Obama and the New March
President Obama speaks eloquently about the economic goals of the March on Washington, but passes up opportunities to stand with low-wage workers.
Aug 30, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
This Week in Poverty: ’90 Percent of Workers Aren’t Getting Bupkis’ This Week in Poverty: ’90 Percent of Workers Aren’t Getting Bupkis’
Americans across the economic spectrum have a lot in common when it comes to stagnating wages.
Aug 23, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann