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  1. Low-Wage Employers Are the Real ‘Welfare Queens’ Josh Adams, right, chants with other protestors near the corner of Airways Blvd. and Lamar Ave. outside of a McDonalds in Memphis, Tenn. Thursday, May 15, 2014, while demonstrating for a $15 wage and right to form a union without retaliation in the fast food industry. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, William DeShazer)
    10 Oct 2014 … Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour wouldn't only lift millions out of poverty. Continue reading
  2. The Kerner Commission, 40 Years Later
    3 Mar 2008 … Bill and former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris discuss the 40-year-old Kerner Commission Report connecting poverty to violence. Continue reading
  3. “Black Women’s Blueprint” Helps Low-Income Women Get By — Through Bartering Black Women's Blueprint
    9 Sep 2014 … Farah Tanis learned that, of the women in poverty she worked with, 9 out of ten had experienced violence — so she started a bartering network to help them survive. Continue reading
  4. Inequality and the American Child
    12 Dec 2014 … Among developed countries, only Romania has a higher rate of child poverty. That's because America has embraced a policy agenda in recent decades that has caused its economy to become wildly unequal. Continue reading
  5. The Twenties Babe Ruth
    8 Aug 1984 … Conventional wisdom enshrines the 1920s as the decade that roared — a time in which Americans kicked up their heels and went for one long joyride before the Wall Street crash of 1929. BIll Moyers and his guests reveal that Continue reading
  6. Do America’s Hungry Children Matter?
    1 Jan 2015 … In the State of the Union, President Obama didn't mention poverty even though this is the year he promised to end child hunger. Continue reading
  7. What Martin Luther King Might Think of Today’s Economic Justice
    1 Jan 2013 … In this 2010 Moyers Moment, two civil rights experts imagine what Martin Luther King, Jr. would think of the current state of American poverty and justice. Continue reading
  8. DC Mayor’s Veto of Walmart Wage Bill is a National Outrage An outdoors sign for Walmart is seen in Duarte, Calif. Tuesday, May 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
    9 Sep 2013 … Washington, D.C. mayor Vincent Gray has vetoed a bill that would require large, billion-dollar retailers like Walmart to pay their workers a living age, defined in the bill as at least $12.50 an hour. It is the latest development in Continue reading
  9. Stabenow’s Office Says She is Stamping Out “Food Stamp Fraud” Kevin Concannon, U.S. undersecretary of agriculture, chats with vendor Helen Wise at the State Farmers Market in Raleigh, N.C. in 2012. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)
    12 Dec 2013 … The Democratic senator defends proposed $8-to-$9 billion cuts to SNAP, and poverty advocates respond. Continue reading
  10. Inside Atlantic City’s Boom and Bust New casinos in neighboring states have drawn many visitors away from Atlantic City, New Jersey, and in 2014 some 8,000 people were laid off when four of the city's major casinos closed. The closures brought Atlantic City's unemployment rate to more than 11 percent, double the national average. The mass unemployment produced the highest foreclosure rate of any metropolitan US area, with 1 out of 113 homes in foreclosure in Atlantic County in 2015. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2016 … We're marking the end of summer by sharing a series our colleagues at PBS have done on an iconic summertime town: Atlantic City, New Jersey. As part of "Chasing the Dream," a public media initiative covering poverty and opportunity in America, NJTV took Continue reading