Florida kept disabled kids in institutions. A judge is sending them home.
7/21/23
Busting the Myth of ‘Welfare Makes People Lazy’
12/16/22
Rags-to-Riches Stories Are Actually Kind of Disturbing
4/9/22
Sky high natural gas prices will hurt low-income Americans the most this winter
11/3/21
Poverty fell overall in 2020 due to massive stimulus checks and unemployment aid, U.S. Census says
9/14/21
The new child tax credit could lift more than 5 million kids out of poverty.
7/15/21
GOP governors are cutting unemployment aid. Some have ties to businesses that may benefit.
6/7/21
Jeb Bush: America is failing its workforce
4/20/21
How Biden quietly created a huge social program
3/22/21
They quit rather than risk Covid at work. Now they’re hoping Biden can help them collect unemployment.
2/8/21
President Biden to increase federal food benefits among executive actions aimed at stabilizing U.S. economy
1/22/21
Why one of America’s richest states is also its poorest
10/16/20
Indiana Rep. Jim Banks introduces bill to take unemployment benefits from rioters
9/1/20
For Many, $600 Jobless Benefit Makes It Hard To Return To Work
5/27/20
As layoffs skyrocket, the holes in America’s safety net are becoming apparent
3/20/20
A Solution to Child Poverty
1/30/20
Best Decade Ever?
1/1/20
Proposed HHS rule would strip Obama-era protections for LGBTQ individuals
11/2/19
$1,000 a month, no strings attached
9/2/19
Trump proposal would push 3 million Americans off food stamps
7/23/19
First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: 'We're In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis'
4/25/19
Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’
4/25/19
Trump’s ‘Harvest Box’ Isn’t Viable in SNAP Overhaul
2/14/18
Why Ben Carson’s bizarre perspective on poverty matters
5/25/17
U.S. Will Ban Smoking in Public Housing Nationwide
11/30/16
Paul Ryan Is Pretty Sure Welfare Recipients Are Not Working Hard Enough
6/7/16
Why a Universal Basic Income Will Not Solve Poverty
5/31/16
The Hypocrisy of ‘Helping’ the Poor
10/2/15
Why the poor vote ‘against their own interests’
9/24/15
Uninsured Numbers Drop as Poverty Rate Holds Steady
9/16/15
New Kansas rules would limit spending of welfare benefits
4/16/15
Did Ending Unemployment Insurance Extensions Really Create 1.8 Million Jobs?
1/28/15
The Affordable Childcare System That Used To Exist In The U.S.
1/22/15
Cutting Emergency Unemployment Compensation Means Cutting Jobs Nationwide
9/3/14
GOP Push To Cut School Lunch Funding Echoes Years Of Conservative Media Attacks
5/22/14
Two Charts That Show Conservatives Don't Understand Disability
5/22/14
IRS Paid at Least $13B in Improper Tax Credits
5/15/14
Senate Deal Is Reached on Restoring Jobless Aid
3/13/14
Building on the Success of the War on Poverty
1/26/14
Enemies of the Poor
1/13/14
A Smarter War on Poverty
1/13/14
50 Years Into The War On Poverty, Right-Wing Media Want To Give Up The Fight
1/10/14
In the Long War on Poverty, Small Victories That Matter
1/8/14
Republicans Move to Claim Poverty-Fighting Mantle
1/8/14
Fox's Varney Reverses Economists On The "Trap" Of Jobless Benefits Extension
1/5/14
The Economics of Being Kinder and Gentler in Health Care
12/30/13
Where the 1.3 million people losing unemployment aid this week live
12/27/13
Where Is the Love?
12/5/13
Median Income and Poverty Rate Hold Steady, Census Bureau Finds
9/17/13
Right-Wing Media Have No Clue How Anti-Poverty Programs Work
8/20/13
Americans blame 'government welfare' for persistent poverty, poll finds
6/6/13
Jeffrey Hillman, the barefoot 'homeless' man from viral NYPD photo, has apartment says city agency
12/6/12
Entrepreneurship Is a Key to Poverty Reduction
11/26/12
N.H. Group Says People, Not Taxes, Should Help Needy
11/25/12
The poor in America: In need of help
11/12/12
Unclaimed Jobless Benefits Far Exceed Fraudulent Claims
10/25/12
Paul Ryan Joins House Vote To Block Welfare Rule Republicans Sought
9/21/12
One Nation On Welfare. Living Your Life On The Dole
9/17/12
U.S. poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s
7/22/12