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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. Book Excerpt: Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats
    10 Oct 2012 … Bill recently interviewed author Chrystia Freeland on Moyers & Company. Her book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, was published last week and is the inaugural book in the Moyers Book Club. 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. 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
  5. ‘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
  6. 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
  7. Voices From Baltimore Protesters demonstrate ahead of a 10 p.m. curfew Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in Baltimore. The curfew was imposed after unrest in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    5 May 2015 … We asked Baltimoreans what they want the rest of the country to know about the protests and their city. They described a place void of opportunity, plagued with a seemingly uncaring government and a long history of police violence. Continue reading
  8. We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People – Saving the Soul of Democracy Democracy Awakening protest in Washington, DC on April 28, 2016. (Credit: cool revolution, Flickr / CC 2.0)
    9 Sep 2016 … Sixty-six years ago this summer, on my 16th birthday, I went to work for the daily newspaper in the small East Texas town of Marshall where I grew up. It was a good place to be a cub reporter — Continue reading
  9. ‘Housing First’ Policy for Addressing Homelessness Hamstrung By Funding Issues
    1 Jan 2015 … The new approach may spring from good intentions, but is undermined by a lack of affordable housing stock. Continue reading
  10. Vulture Capitalists Circle Above Puerto Rican Prey Heydee Perez, 29, and her son, Yenel Calera, 4, at Rio Grande, Puetro Rico on Sept. 27, 2017. They have not received any aid one week after Hurricane Maria. The roof of their home is gone and they have very little to eat. (Photo by Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … Puerto Ricans have been kicked by Irma, then kicked by Maria, and now kicked by Trump. We’re really suffering. In the middle of our humanitarian crisis, he tells us, “It’s a shame but you have to pay back that debt.” Continue reading