As we remember Howard Zinn five years after his passing, let’s count him among the many social justice heroes and teachers who offer proof that people’s efforts make a difference — that ordinary people can change the world.

The government health care programs turn 50 this year. One advocate argues that rising health care costs mean that strengthening and improving them is more important than ever.

Jobs are coming back, but pay isn’t. What's going on? Robert Reich explains.

Despite the buildup, President Obama had little to say about income inequality and nothing about America's poor.

Last night in his State of the Union address, the president said the words ‘free’ and ‘college’ in the same sentence. The administration’s proposal is a big deal. Here's why.

The President's meeting with native teenagers made him "tear up in the Oval Office." His new agenda to help better their lives is huge step for low-income tribal communities across the country.

Perhaps the most revolutionary effort to end American inequality occurred almost 50 years ago and was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The vast divide between America's rich and poor made stark by the destruction of San Jose's "Jungle."

These charts show why addressing inequality and spurring wage growth is so necessary – and so doable. Policy choices led to these trends, and different policy choices can reverse them.

Among developed countries, only Romania has a higher rate of child poverty. That's because America has embraced a policy agenda in recent decades that has caused its economy to become wildly unequal.