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  1. We Need to Expand the Most Effective Anti-Poverty Program in America Obama supporters Allen Robinson, left, and his wife Nancy King Robinson pose for a portrait in their store, Books and Other Found Things, in Leesburg, Va., on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. King Robinson has multiple sclerosis and receives Social Security disability. "I get it because I worked for it." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
    1 Jan 2015 … One of the easiest and most effective things Congress could do to fight poverty would be to expand a program that already works very well: Social Security. Continue reading
  2. The Obama Legacy: Place-Based Poverty US President Barack Obama attends the National Christmas Tree Lighting on the National Mall in Washington, December 1, 2016. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2016 … I have spent the last 50-plus years of my life fighting poverty. In 1967, when I worked for Sen. Robert Kennedy as his legislative aide, the senator and I traveled to Mississippi. We saw children starving — literally — with Continue reading
  3. As Our Safety Nets Get Slashed, More People Fall into Deep Poverty Jennifer Donald whose family receives money from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also know as food stamps, eats dinner with her sons David, 6, left, and Donovan, 4, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    10 Oct 2013 … Since 1996, the number of families with children living in extreme poverty — that is, on $2 a day or less — has gone up nearly 130 percent. Continue reading
  4. If Congress Hears From Americans Living in Poverty, Will They Do Something About It? House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of his budget plan entitled "The Path to Prosperity," March 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
    1 Jan 2014 … Amy Treptow came to Washington to tell her story of climbing out of poverty. Some elected officials were more interested than others. Continue reading
  5. We Would Have Eliminated Poverty Entirely by Now if Inequality Hadn’t Skyrocketed
    1 Jan 2014 … The War on Poverty would have been won if years of gains hadn't gone to those at the top. Continue reading
  6. Florida Offers a Case Study of How ‘Unintended Consequences’ Can Lead to Poverty
    2 Feb 2014 … The US incarcerates a greater share of its citizens than any other country on planet Earth. For millions of Americans, that sprawling criminal justice system is an engine of poverty and inequality. In some ways, that’s obvious — even a Continue reading
  7. 10 Poverty Myths, Busted In this photo taken Nov. 23, 2009, Lisa Zilligen, 28, serves lunch to her three children, Miles, 20 months, Olivia 6, left, and Danielle, 8, in her home in Chicago. Zilligen, a single mother and full-time student at Loyola University has been getting food stamps for the past several months; sometimes the allotment runs out before the end of the month and the family ends up visiting a food pantry. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
    3 Mar 2014 … Single moms and absentee dads are not the problem. And going to college does not mean you'll escape the poverty trap. Continue reading
  8. Prioritizing Poverty
    2 Feb 2013 … Many of you have wondered about why I said nothing about poverty during my re-election campaign. The reason is that I’ve been saving it up for now. The sad truth is that our nation suffers from shamefully high levels of Continue reading
  9. Peter Edelman on Fighting Poverty
    6 Jun 2012 … Bill talks with the author and advocate about continuing efforts to fight poverty, and how to keep the needs of the poor on the American political agenda. Continue reading
  10. In Other News: Historic Coalition Unites to Challenge Poverty & Revive Democracy Amidst Recession, Pandemic & Protests
    6 Jun 2020 … “Poor and low-income people from more than 40 states will demand change as they share stories of struggling through poverty and protests for racial justice at a historic digital assembly and march sponsored by The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Continue reading