Greg Kaufmann, poverty correspondent for The Nation, says the poor in America are demonized to justify huge cuts in crucial programs for low-income Americans.

Because of sequestration, millions of dollars will be cut from the Great Society-era Older Americans Act during a time when our seniors can least afford it.

When it comes to the farm bill, Congress and the media are talking about everything except how to respond to hunger in America.

More people in America struggle to buy food than in other wealthy nations, and their numbers have increased in recent years.

The Nation's Greg Kaufmann takes a look at US poverty levels and the number of children currently living below the poverty line.

The Nation's Greg Kaufmann says Senate Democrats' commitment to economically-vulnerable Americans "is about as thin as Republican cut proposals are deep."

Because of sequestration, a bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.

See images of poverty from around the nation documented by photojournalists from AmericanPoverty.org.

Joel Berg of the Coalition Against Hunger explains what it means to be "food insecure" and how to fight hunger in America.

American Winter and A Place at the Table put different faces on inequality in America.