• 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