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  1. Raising the Minimum Wage and Affordable Child Care Go Hand in Hand
    11 Nov 2014 … Access to early childhood education, quality child care and after-school programs should be implemented with minimum wage raises. Continue reading
  2. The Four Biggest Economic Challenges Veterans Face
    11 Nov 2013 … Re-entry into society for returning war veterans is particularly difficult given the current economic climate. Continue reading
  3. Staying the Course in Iraq and ‘Front Lines and Food Lines: American Military Families’ U.S. Army Soldiers and members of Sons of Iraq move to their next checkpoint during a checkpoint establishment operation in the Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq, March 6, 2008. The Soldiers are from 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Michael Hendrickson)
    4 Apr 2004 … With soldiers in Iraq making a base pay of as little as about $1300 per month, are America's service men and women worrying about their families affording their basic needs back home? Continue reading
  4. ‘Fiscal Crisis’ or Physical Crisis in Philadelphia’s Public Schools? Germantown, Philadelphia students
    6 Jun 2014 … A former teaching fellow writes that sometimes reforms meant to help our most disadvantaged kids end up exacerbating inequality and depriving them of fundamental basics. Continue reading
  5. Who Are the ‘Legitimate’ Poor? A woman and her daughter counts out Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) coupons, more commonly known as Food Stamps, while shopping for groceries in the GrowNYC Greenmarket in Union Square. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2016 … Recently, I disobeyed a cardinal rule of the Internet and decided to read comments on an article I once published in the Missoula Independent. I had begun writing about raising my daughters on very little income, which opened me up Continue reading
  6. Yes, Being a Woman Makes You Poorer Gender gap as Uni applications rise. File photo dated 12/10/11 of students wearing mortar boards and gowns after graduating as rising numbers of would-be students have submitted applications to go to university this year, but men are still far less likely to apply than women, official figures show. Issue date: Friday January 31, 2014. Young men are becoming a disadvantaged group when it comes to studying for a degree and urgent attention needs to be paid to the problem, according to Ucas. Within the next decade, the gulf between the numbers of men and women going into higher education could eclipse the gap between the numbers of rich and poor students studying at university, Ucas chief executive Mary Curnock Cook suggested. See PA story EDUCATION Students. Photo credit should read: Chris Radburn/PA Wire URN:18842076
    4 Apr 2014 … Women are much more likely to have minimum-wage jobs than men and female-headed households are more likely to be poor. Continue reading
  7. Confronting Congressional Hunger Games
    7 Jul 2013 … There's a major disconnect between rhetoric and reality when it comes to Congress confronting hunger in America. Continue reading
  8. Nickel and Dimed in 2016 MIAMI, FL - NOVEMBER 24: Jaime Vado fixes a display in the aisle at a Walmart store as they prepare for Black Friday shoppers on November 24, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2016 … When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality, and when other candidates speak about the minimum wage and food stamps, what are they really talking about? Whether they know it or not, it’s something like this. ... I was Continue reading
  9. Gray Market Work: How Businesses Hurt Workers and Cheat Uncle Sam Construction workers carry supplies at the World Trade Center site in New York. October 2008. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
    4 Apr 2014 … Workers today find themselves in an ill-defined borderland where confusion reigns, standards are shifting or disappearing and abuse is rampant. Continue reading
  10. Newark Mayor Cory Booker Reflects on the 1967 Riots Cory Booker (Photo: Cory Booker/flickr)
    3 Mar 2008 … Forty years after race riots in dozens of cities stunned the nation, has anything changed? Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a frontline report on race and politics. Continue reading