In Camden, New Jersey, they've created one of the nation's fastest growing networks of urban farms.

A former teaching fellow writes that reforms meant to help our most disadvantaged kids sometimes end up exacerbating inequality and depriving them of fundamental basics.

The latest agriculture bill before the House continues the practice of building policies that perpetuate racial inequities without actually naming race, write two anti-hunger activists.

Leaving homeless people on the streets costs taxpayers big money.

We’re at a critical moment in our economic recovery.

It is absurd to believe that any attempt to finally end hunger or poverty in the US can succeed without the significant involvement and leadership of low-income Americans.

Once the wealthiest in the world, America's middle class now takes home less income than their counterparts in Canada. And America's poor are lagging even further behind.

Economist Paul Krugman explains how the United States is becoming an oligarchy - the very system our founders revolted against.

Women are much more likely to have minimum-wage jobs than men and female-headed households are more likely to be poor.

The “Nuns on the Bus” leader reflects on the significance of the recent meeting of the pontiff and the president at the Vatican.