Squeezing the Have-Nots Squeezing the Have-Nots
Fitful efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast unfold against a backdrop of looming economic disaster: rising unemployment and interest rates, misplaced priorities and a recession that w...
Oct 13, 2005 / William Greider
Bush Finally Sees Poor People Bush Finally Sees Poor People
It takes a hurricane to raise awareness that the numbers of poor people are growing on George Bush's watch. Will that be enough for the President to begin to level the playing fiel...
Sep 20, 2005 / Column / Robert Scheer
Lessons From the Social Security Debate Lessons From the Social Security Debate
A better approach to measuring poverty.
Apr 26, 2005 / Jared Bernstein and Mark Greenberg
Let Them Eat Cake Let Them Eat Cake
The Bush budget cuts programs for the hungry.
Apr 21, 2005 / Trudy Lieberman
False Promises False Promises
In American Dream, his masterful new book about welfare reform, Jason DeParle brings together two groups of people who rarely seem to meet: welfare policy-makers and welfare reci...
Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Egan
Straight Down the Middle Straight Down the Middle
Not being "middle class," the poor have been invisible in this campaign.
Oct 21, 2004 / Feature / Eyal Press
Poverty in the Suburbs Poverty in the Suburbs
Hidden in a Census Bureau report on poverty released in late August is a factoid with significant political and social consequences. Poverty has moved to the suburbs.
Sep 2, 2004 / Peter Dreier
Do You Feel a Draft? Do You Feel a Draft?
The main effect of bringing back the draft would be to further militarize the nation.
May 20, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt
What’s Good Enough? What’s Good Enough?
Advocates are demanding not just equal but decent schools for all children.
Apr 15, 2004 / Feature / Peter Schrag
The Cruelest Month The Cruelest Month
Like mushrooms after a spring rain, signs pop up at this time of year in hardscrabble urban neighborhoods across the country, promising quick and easy money.
Apr 8, 2004 / Bobbi Murray