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  1. As Hate Incidents Rise, Rights Groups Urge Trump to Denounce Bigotry Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, speaks during a press conference in Washington, DC on Nov. 29, 2016. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … Since the election of Donald Trump, an increased number of hate incidents have targeted minority groups in America, and the election results are having a negative impact on America’s schoolchildren, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Continue reading
  2. Anger Gone Viral Far right party posters in Rome
    11 Nov 2016 … British Labour MP Jo Cox was a committed advocate of the European Union, and a believer in Britain’s ability to do good in the world. She campaigned for the rights of Syrians — both those in her country and those Continue reading
  3. Bernie Sanders: Keeping US from Becoming Oligarchy Is ‘A Struggle We Must Win’ (Photo: Screenshot from "An Economic Agenda for America: A Conversation with Bernie Sanders" event in DC.)
    2 Feb 2015 … Sen. Sanders says the wealth gap, high poverty rates and the health care crisis are signs of the growing power of a small billionaire class. Continue reading
  4. Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines
    8 Aug 2013 … Bill reports on striking extremes of wealth and poverty in California’s Silicon Valley, and writer Sherman Alexie discusses the influence of his Native American heritage. Continue reading
  5. A Judge in Louisiana Is Letting a Private Company Charge People to Get Out of Jail, Says the ACLU Barbed wire fence of a prison. (Photo by John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2017 … For some people arrested in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, posting bail is often not enough to get them out of jail. According to a new class action suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Louisiana, Continue reading
  6. The Faces of America’s Hungry
    6 Jun 2013 … The tragic truth about hunger, food insecurity and poverty in America. Continue reading
  7. Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines
    5 May 2013 … Bill reports on striking extremes of wealth and poverty in California’s Silicon Valley, and writer Sherman Alexie discusses the influence of his Native American heritage. Continue reading
  8. The No-Win Decisions of Child Care
    5 May 2013 … We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt from Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week in Poverty” column by guest author Carol Burnett. In a recent article in The New Republic, “The Hell of American Continue reading
  9. States Move to Roll Back City Minimum-Wage Raises Caption:MIAMI, FL - NOVEMBER 10: People protest together asking for a higher minimum wage on a National Day of Action on November 10, 2015 in Miami, Florida. The protesters are demanding action from state legislators and presidential candidates to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2016 … Last August, after a campaign led by a coalition of labor advocates and neighborhood organizations, Birmingham became the first city in the Deep South to raise its minimum wage. The increase was relatively modest — it sought to raise the Continue reading
  10. A New Documentary Celebrates the Life and Work of Dolores Huerta United Farm Workers leader Dolores Huerta organizing marchers on the second day of March Coachella in Coachella, California in 1969. (© 1976 George Ballis)
    10 Oct 2017 … Dolores, the new documentary directed by Peter Bratt in theaters this month celebrates the force that is Dolores Huerta, the labor organizer and political activist who worked tirelessly on behalf of some of the most poverty stricken workers in the Continue reading