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  1. How a Right-Wing Political Machine Is Dismantling Higher Education in North Carolina Woman crossing UNC campus
    6 Jun 2015 … What began as isolated ideological attacks is looking more and more like a wholesale gutting of the state’s public colleges. Continue reading
  2. SNAP Cuts Mean Millions Could Go Hungry
    11 Nov 2013 … Congressional cuts to the food stamp program went into effect this week, making it much harder for struggling families to make ends meet. Continue reading
  3. How Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Victory Began in New York City’s Zuccotti Park In this Aug. 1, 2013 photo, demonstrators protesting what they say are low wages and improper treatment for fast-food workers march in downtown Seattle. Washington already has the nation’s highest state minimum wage at $9.19 an hour. Now, there’s a push in Seattle, at least, to make it $15. That would mean fast food workers, retail clerks, baristas and other minimum wage workers would get what protesters demanded when they shut down a handful of city restaurants in May and others demonstrated nationwide in July. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
    6 Jun 2014 … Immediately after the Occupy Wall Street protests began, candidates and elected officials started echoing its themes and the growing inequality in the country. Continue reading
  4. The Kingdom Divided Methodist pastor George Baldwin
    12 Dec 1987 … Bill Moyers explores two different visions of Christianity and how each is finding a pulpit and battleground in Central America. In Nicaragua, the Sandanistas’ view of Christianity says that the poor must not wait for justice, that the Kingdom of Continue reading
  5. Let’s Tell Congress to Raise the Minimum Wage… Right Now! Fast Food Strike in NYC, July 2013. (Photo: Annette Bernhardt/Flickr CC 2.0)
    9 Sep 2014 … There's no need to wait for the next election. Americans know what they want. Continue reading
  6. Everything You Wanted to Know About the 1996 Welfare Law but Were Afraid to Ask President Bill Clinton during a 1996 speech on welfare reform at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … In 1996, Congress replaced the New Deal-era Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with a new program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), under the guise of “ending welfare as we know it.” Continue reading
  7. What’s Killing the American Middle Class? Unemployed and homeless people line up for a free meal and new shoes during a Good Friday event in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 2015. After a year of pumping up their payrolls, US employers sharply cut back hiring in March, in a fresh sign of a slowdown in the world's leading economy. AFP PHOTO/ MARK RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
    5 May 2016 … A new study by the Pew Research Center spurred a rash of headlines last week about “the dying middle class.” But the word “dying” might be more appropriate if we were watching the regrettable but inevitable effects of natural forces Continue reading
  8. Breaking the Grip of the Fossil Fuel Economy: If It Can Happen in Appalachia, It Can Happen Anywhere Activist Helen Lewis at home. (Photo: Paula Allen)
    8 Aug 2014 … A number of small, local initiatives are beginning to transform Appalachia's coal country. Continue reading
  9. Downward Mobility, Hypocritical Politicians and Rebuilding Afghanistan ** ADVANCE FOR THURSDAY JULY 24 ** Jefferson, Wis., Mayor Arnold Brawders, center, talks to striking Tyson Foods plant workers Ron Geyer, left, and Tom Heine, right outside the plant on May 12, 2003, in Jefferson. A strike by 470 Tyson workers at the Jefferson plant has turned the contract negotiations into a David-and-Goliath-type fight between a small southeastern Wisconsin town of 7,300 and the nation's largest meat company. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
    10 Oct 2003 … A battle between union workers and corporate efforts to cut pay and benefits, politicians who tout their religions but don't help those in need, and the plight of women in Afghanistan. Continue reading
  10. ’90 Percent of Workers Aren’t Getting Bupkis’
    8 Aug 2013 … Greg Kaufmann asks two economists: "How could we return to broad wage growth for all workers?" Continue reading