What is living in poverty if not constantly being creative?

While we celebrate the victories minimum wage workers have won in California and New York, a restaurant activist reminds us that the federal minimum for tipped workers is still $2.13 an hour.

America’s top nutrition thinker tried to unpack the most important food law. It was a mistake.

Grassroots organizing and protest has fueled a wave of outrage about policies that crush the poor.

Someone once told me: “You are probably a part of a small percentage of moms and dads who are legitimate in their need.”

If we are to change the embarrassingly low standard of justice we currently accept for the poor, this is what we have to do.

The poisoned water is the most urgent of many crises facing Flint, a city where 42 percent of residents live below the poverty line.

These 20 stories and op-eds drew attention to critical but underreported issues, rebutted persistent myths, lifted up policy solutions and even served as a catalyst for change.

If Republican candidates want to be taken seriously when they gather to discuss poverty, they must acknowledge the full extent of it — and that we already have the solutions to fix it.

What did the mainstream media ignore this year? Reporters, editors and bloggers highlight stories that didn't get nearly enough attention.