USC's Edward Kleinbard says we deserve a smarter conversation about the role of government in our society.

"Our role now is to be like a social defibrillator, to shock the heart of the nation, to cause it to revive and to remember what the real enemy is: regressive extremism."

Having poor people in the richest country in the world is a choice. We have the money to solve this. But do we have the will?

A number of small, local initiatives are beginning to transform Appalachia's coal country.

Inequality isn't inevitable in capitalism, says the Noble Prize-winning economist in Harper's. But it is with the capitalist system America currently has.

A middle-class family who had a child in 2013 can expect to spend $304,408 over the course of raising her until age 18.

For decades, the increasing precariousness of work has been a source of mass frustration for tens of millions of Americans.

Americans are sick of politics. Only 13 percent approve of the job Congress is doing, a near record low. The president’s approval ratings are also in the basement.

Imagine you’re a single mother working a minimum-wage job with a toddler at home. When your diaper supply runs out mid-month, where can you turn to help you afford that incredibly basic necessity?

"The influence of ordinary Americans registers at a 'non-significant, near-zero level.'"