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  1. Photo Slideshow: Poverty in Today’s America Images of abject suffering and deprivation on the Gulf Coast were laid bare by Hurricane Katrina – not just suffering caused by the hurricane’s destructive path, but vivid portraits exposing the numbing poverty of tens of thousands of Mississippi and Louisiana families prior to the storm. (Credit: Brenda Ann Kenneally)
    4 Apr 2013 … America’s poor are, unfortunately, often out of sight and out of mind. In the tradition of groundbreaking photojournalists like Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, a group of photojournalists working today have brought their work together at AmericanPoverty.org to Continue reading
  2. The Pope, Poverty and Poetry
    12 Dec 2013 … Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms, and to Philip Levine, who explores how his years working on Detroit's assembly lines inspired his poetry. Continue reading
  3. How Big Media Ignores the Poor
    10 Oct 2012 … Steve Rendall of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting explains why poverty "doesn't register with journalists." Continue reading
  4. The Earth Debate: A Special Roundtable From the UN Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg
    8 Aug 2002 … Panelists discuss the state of the Earth, including population, poverty, hunger, health, energy, water and genetic diversity. Continue reading
  5. New Data Shows School ‘Reformers’ Are Getting it Wrong Michelle Rhee, right, talks to third grader Kmone Feeling during a visit at J.O. Wilson Elementary School on Aug. 23, 2010 in Washington. D.C. Rhee was D.C.'s public schools chancellor at the time. Mayor Adrian Fenty, back second left, and school principal Sheryl Warley, left, stand at the back. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
    6 Jun 2013 … Poor schools underperform largely because of poverty and economic inequality, not because teachers have it too easy. Continue reading
  6. Fighting for Seats at the Table: A Poor People’s Movement in a Rust Belt Town In this painting by community organizer Allen Schwartz, people line up to get school supplies for their children in Newark. (Artwork: Allen Schwartz)
    7 Jul 2016 … When Chris Wills got out of prison, he could not find a job. He applied, but no one would hire him because of his record. And then he started using drugs again. In a moment of desperation, he went to Continue reading
  7. Leave No Civilian Behind
    12 Dec 2014 … The reason veterans should not experience poverty is not because they are veterans. It's because no one should. Continue reading
  8. How Obama Can Fight Hunger Now Volunteers fill bags with food for part of their backpack school lunch program at the Cleveland Foodbank in Cleveland on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. The Foodbank provides take home lunches for school children on the days they do not have classes, and with the four-day holiday from school surrounding Thanksgiving, many more of the meals are needed. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
    2 Feb 2013 … In his State of the Union address, President Obama offered concrete proposals anti-poverty advocates have long waited for, but they aren't nearly enough. Continue reading
  9. Why Americans Hate Welfare An illustrative 1996 cover story urges Bill Clinton to sign welfare reform in The New Republic.
    3 Mar 2014 … Princeton political scientist Martin Gilens explains how the media and longstanding racial stereotypes impact anti-poverty policy. Continue reading
  10. Rev. Barber: Systematic Racialized Voter Suppression is the “Election Hacking” the US Must Address Various labor unions and progressive organizations protest on Capitol Hill Sept. 16, 2015, calling for the restoration of the Voting Rights Act struck down by the US Supreme Court. (Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2017 … This weekend, hundreds will gather in Raleigh for the North Carolina NAACP State Convention, the last one that will be presided over by Bishop William Barber as president of the state conference. Rev. Dr. Barber announced he would not run Continue reading