The Poverty Line

America's capital is its richest city, and also one of its most unequal.

A new report released by the Cato Institute claims that the "current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincen­tive for work.”

An artist's rendering of Manhattan's skyline exposes the city's astounding wealth disparity.

Paul Ryan declined to invite struggling mother Tianna Gaines-Turner to speak before his poverty hearing, but here's what she would have said.

Sequestration mandates made housing less affordable than ever. Congressional inaction will keep it that way.

Congressman Jim McDermott described Ryan's hearing on poverty perfectly when he said: “This hearing is surreal… You are not living in the real world.”

See why US fast food workers are walking off the job this week in what organizers say is the largest strike in the industry’s history.

We need a series of hearings for politicians to listen to those living in poverty, writes Greg Kaufmann.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has the opportunity to listen to and learn from an advocate on the front lines of the poverty battle tomorrow. Will he take it?

In contrast to rubbish that passes for conversation about hunger in Congress, NYC's recent Forum on the Future of Food offered substantive food for thought.