The Poverty Line

Ai-jen Poo describes her efforts to provide basic protections for nannies, housekeepers, home health aides, and others whose work "makes all other work possible."

With the holiday shopping season fast approaching, Demos looks at how increasing wages in the retail sector would improve the overall economy.

The Nation's Greg Kaufmann reports on Cincinnati's janitors, who face low wages and decreasing hours while working for some of the most profitable companies in America.

The Nation columnist Greg Kaufmann reports on the the fight in Cincinnati to end "poverty wages" for the city's 1,000 janitors.

The Nation's Greg Kaufmann describes America's poverty problem, how it's being ignored, and what everyone should be doing about it.

Ryan and Romney repeatedly recite the number of people living in poverty or needing food stamps, using the statistics as a bludgeon against Obama’s record. But Bigfoot and Nessie are about as factual as the myths these guys spin.

In the second presidential debate, one candidate used the word “poverty” without saying anything about poverty; the other didn’t use the word at all but managed to speak a fair amount about it.

New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall looks at income inequality from an economic growth perspective.

Paul Ryan may not have a plan for reducing poverty, but advocates in his home state have devised a plan to reduce poverty over 50 percent.

A look at poverty in Mississippi and a roundup of articles about income inequality in America.