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  1. Here’s What Students Think Biden Needs to Do in His First 100 Days
    1 Jan 2021 … From reimagining the Postal Service to combating climate change to reforming OIRA, students across the country told us what they think Biden’s top priority should be. Continue reading
  2. Losing Medicaid in Mississippi, The Politics of Oil, and Gay Marriage and the Bible Oil Rig Maintenance in Darwin Harbour September 2013. (Photo: Ken Hodge/flickr CC 2.0)
    7 Jul 2004 … A look at a report on the size and scope of the international oil and gas industry and its governmental influence; inside America's moral debate; and are tough cuts necessary to save Medicaid? Continue reading
  3. America Wakes Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters Protesters form a wall of signs at the Occupy Portland camp in downtown Portland, Ore. October 2011. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
    1 Jan 2012 … Decrying income inequality isn't "class warfare" -- and it matters to us all. Continue reading
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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