- January 21, 2015 | Updated January 22, 2015Five years after Citizens United, outside spending on elections is totally out of control. Here's an enraging and inspiring rundown of the current state of election spending and some ideas to improve things.
- January 20, 2015Campaigns such as San Francisco's Retail Workers Bill of Rights have the potential to set workers up for more transformational fights, making bolder demands that confront corporate power and fight poverty and inequality.
- January 20, 2015Read Money Talks, our weekly roundup of the best reporting on the influence of money on our democracy.
- January 20, 2015The President's meeting with native teenagers made him "tear up in the Oval Office." His new agenda to help better their lives is huge step for low-income tribal communities across the country.
- January 19, 2015There is a widely-held myth constructed by the right that the people who struggle to make ends meet don’t want to work. But in reality, people are working harder and harder for less and less.
- January 19, 2015TalkPoverty highlights the best 20 stories and op-eds that drew attention to critical but under-reported issues in America in the the past year.
- January 18, 2015Perhaps the most revolutionary effort to end American inequality occurred almost 50 years ago and was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- January 16, 2015When Martin Luther King Jr. died he was in the midst of planning a campaign to help the poor. "It is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis and a full-time job getting part-time income," King said.
- January 15, 2015Getting the high speed Internet access issue right presents both one of the key social justice challenges of our time and the greatest opportunity for America in a century.
- January 14, 2015Advocates don't have their Vermont Public Bank yet, but the compromise they reached was still a rare and significant win over Wall Street banks.