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  1. How the Disappearing Middle Class Threatens Our Democracy
    3 Mar 2017 … Legal scholar Ganesh Sitaraman’s new book, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution, is an important read in these times of increasing economic inequality. E.J. Dionnne tweeted: “To understand the stakes in the #Gorsuch confirmation battle and our larger judicial debate, Continue reading
  2. Teachers Are Protecting American Classrooms From Corporate Takeover In this April 10, 2014 file photo, student teacher Franchesca Moreno, 21, reads to Andreanna Thomas, 6, right, and Alana Cawthon, upper left, at Bennett Park Montessori School in Buffalo, NY. (AP Photo)
    5 May 2014 … Teachers are fighting the privatization wave by connecting with families right where they live. Continue reading
  3. James Cone and Taylor Branch on MLK’s Fight for Economic Equality
    4 Apr 2013 … Theologian James Cone and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch join Bill to discuss Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision of economic justice. Continue reading
  4. There Will Be Fewer Child Migrants This Year, But the Crisis Isn’t Over A surge of unaccompanied minors crossed the US-Mexico border last year, fleeing the poverty and gang violence crisis in their home country. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
    2 Feb 2015 … Even as the journey north has gotten harder, thousands of kids are fleeing Central America for the United States. Continue reading
  5. Trump Flip-Flops on Afghanistan, Opts for Years-Long Quagmire Members of the US military listen as President Donald Trump delivers remarks on American involvement in Afghanistan on Aug. 21, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2017 … The 16-years-long Afghanistan War has bedeviled Washington decision-makers since the US invasion of fall 2001, which came in response to the attacks of Sept. 11. Continue reading
  6. This is What a Real Food Policy Conversation Looks Like Four-year-old Nathan Hobbs, who lives in a homeless shelter with his mother, sits in a stroller with one-dollar bills he received for his birthday pinned to his chest in Los Angeles, Wednesday, September 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    7 Jul 2013 … In contrast to the rubbish that passes for a conversation about food and hunger in Congress, the recent Forum on the Future of Food in New York City offered substantive talk. Continue reading
  7. Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump "I Voted" stickers at a polling location during the presidential primary vote in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. (Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2017 … You can’t say Andrea Anthony didn’t try. A 37-year-old African-American woman with an infectious smile, Anthony had voted in every major election since she was 18. On Nov. 8, 2016, she went to the Clinton Rose Senior Center, her polling site Continue reading
  8. Martin Luther King Jr.: Remembering a Committed Life MLK
    1 Jan 2014 … Nearly 50 years after his death it is King's words and deeds that live on in the American memory -- not that of the racists who hated him or the Black Power advocates who scorned him. Continue reading
  9. What a Revived Poor People’s Campaign Needs to Do in the Trump Era North Carolina NAACP President, Reverend William J. Barber, 52, poses for a portrait in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday, January 21, 2016. Barber is a vocal spokesman against the State of North Carolina's controversial voter identification law. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2017 … In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and his allies started the Poor People’s Campaign, a movement meant to improve the lives of low-income Americans. But King was assassinated a few months before its political actions officially kicked off, and the Continue reading
  10. The Minimum Wage Doesn’t Apply to Everyone
    7 Jul 2013 … Nearly two million working Americans make even less than the minimum because of various exemptions. Continue reading