The Poverty Line

The presidential hopeful unveiled his new ideas, but it turns out they're not so new after all.

Yes, and Americans want more anti-poverty initiatives.

Fifty years after the War on Poverty began, poverty remains a serious problem. US Census figures show that most urban areas have neighborhoods with high poverty rates.

America has been redistributing upward for some time -- “trickle-down” economics turned out to be trickle up -- but we outdid ourselves in 2013.

This week Harold Meyerson reported in The Washington Post that Democrats are looking to take a page out of the Bush playbook as we approach the 2014 midterms.

We asked some of the people trying to change the world for the better to tell us what made them proud in 2013, and what their hopes and dreams are for 2014.

Economists Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein have written a new book about how to cure what ails the American economy.

Everyone seems to be talking about inequality. If you’ve got questions, we’ve (hopefully) got the answers.

These common assumptions threaten programs that keep families afloat.

Long-term unemployed workers will lose federal benefits shortly after Christmas. What’s happened in North Carolina since July is an indication of what will happen nationwide, and it's not pretty.