In a speech delivered last year in Australia, the journalist and creator of The Wire said America is "utterly schizophrenic" when it comes to our society, economy and politics.

For the first time, working-age Americans make up a majority of food stamp recipients.

In the conclusion of Bill's conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist talks about why science literacy is critical to the future of our democracy, economy and standing in the world.

Documents indicate the US is caving on environmental standards it had previously set for international trade agreements.

The 900,000 poorest working families in North Carolina just got another tax hike from the conservatives who swept state legislature elections in 2010.

Bill discusses our country's most successful effort to cut poverty with another veteran of that fight, Peter Edelman, who is today one of the leading experts on poverty.

Conservatives have pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy intended to convince working-class whites that the poor were their enemies. It’s starting to backfire.

Yes, and Americans want more anti-poverty initiatives.

Fifty years after the War on Poverty began, poverty remains a serious problem. US Census figures show that most urban areas have neighborhoods with high poverty rates.

America has been redistributing upward for some time -- “trickle-down” economics turned out to be trickle up -- but we outdid ourselves in 2013.