Poverty

A. Phillip Randolph speaks

When Racial Justice Meant Universal Social Benefits When Racial Justice Meant Universal Social Benefits

The left used to believe that reducing inequality across the board was the best way to combat racial injustice. What happened?

May 17, 2023 / Column / Adolph Reed Jr.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris return to the Oval Office at the conclusion of an event marking National Small Business Week in the Rose Garden at the White House on May 1, 2023.

Joe Biden, Culture Warrior Joe Biden, Culture Warrior

The president’s freedom agenda can win—if he doesn’t embrace austerity.

May 15, 2023 / Jeet Heer

Appalachia Mountains

What “Demon Copperhead” Gets Right About Appalachia What “Demon Copperhead” Gets Right About Appalachia

Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel shows the reality of the opioid and foster care crises in the region without resorting to stale stereotypes.

May 15, 2023 / StudentNation / Jessica Miller

Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign speaks at the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival Rally at the US Supreme Court on October 27, 2021.

The Poor People’s Campaign Launched on Mother’s Day 2018 The Poor People’s Campaign Launched on Mother’s Day 2018

It culminated in a season of nonviolent direct action.

May 14, 2023 / Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

Gloria Malone, one of the teen parents behind the No Teen Shame campaign

How a Scrappy Group of Young Moms Transformed the Way We Think About Teen Pregnancy How a Scrappy Group of Young Moms Transformed the Way We Think About Teen Pregnancy

Over a 10-year campaign, they talked back to public health experts, government officials, and even purported allies who were treating them like they were the problem.

May 12, 2023 / Amy Littlefield

The Anarchism of the Catholic Worker

The Anarchism of the Catholic Worker The Anarchism of the Catholic Worker

In its 90th year, the radical peace movement is reinvigorating itself by going hyper-local.

May 8, 2023 / Feature / Renée Darline Roden

A mobile Covid-19 testing site in New York.

What the Country Refused to Learn From the Pandemic What the Country Refused to Learn From the Pandemic

However briefly, the pandemic showed us that such an American world is not only possible but right at our fingertips.

May 4, 2023 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

Striking Starbucks coffee shop worker

Why Are So Many Young People Joining Labor Unions? Why Are So Many Young People Joining Labor Unions?

For May Day, we talked to young workers—in tech, retail, food service, and more—about what brought them to the labor movement.

May 1, 2023 / StudentNation / Paige Oamek

Rutgers University Campus Strike

This May Day, Let’s Celebrate the Campus Labor Movement This May Day, Let’s Celebrate the Campus Labor Movement

Union organizers and student journalists in Michigan, Oregon, North Carolina, and Arizona document the ongoing labor campaigns at their universities.

May 1, 2023 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Homelessness in San Francisco

California’s Hypocritical Failure to Confront Poverty California’s Hypocritical Failure to Confront Poverty

An interview with Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America, on the state's betrayal of its progressive values.

Apr 28, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky

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