On Tuesday, the Democrats' economic agenda fared better than Democrats.

We asked our audience what kind of coverage of poverty issues they were interested in and received over 2,000 responses.

An ambitious new global campaign declares that we’ll only make real progress against economic inequality if we confront the concentration of wealth at the top.

Global inequality, like global warming, is a disease that may be too far along to ever be cured.

Workers from the big box chain held a protest in New York City and Washington, DC, on Thursday to ask for a "living wage" and consistent full-time work.

The middle class squeeze continues, and you may find yourself wishing it was 1999.

Reporter Bob Herbert on his new book, Losing Our Way, an intimate and heartrending portrait of America in economic despair.

Under the guise of innovation and progress, companies like Uber are stripping away worker protections, pushing down wages and flouting government regulations.

Since 1980, an ever greater share of our economic recoveries has gone to those at the top of the pile.

This month, the US Census Bureau revealed that there was a statistically significant decline in poverty last year. Is this worth celebrating?