For our kids to be well read, they must first be well fed.

In the State of the Union, President Obama didn't mention poverty even though this is the year he promised to end child hunger.

Every day, visit BillMoyers.com to discover a new action you can take to help turn the tide in the fight against poverty.

Imagine you’re a single mother working a minimum-wage job with a toddler at home. When your diaper supply runs out mid-month, where can you turn to help you afford that incredibly basic necessity?

Paul Ryans new plan includes a few positive proposals, but a poverty activist writes that it's doomed to fail because of its reliance on discredited, right-wing poverty myths.

Tianna Gaines-Turner has been struggling to feed her family for years. She testified before Congress this week.

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ.

Negotiators reportedly settled on cutting funding for financial regulators after giving up on further cuts in food stamps in a draft of a budget deal.

These common assumptions threaten programs that keep families afloat.

The Democratic senator defends proposed $8-to-$9 billion cuts to SNAP, and poverty advocates respond.