One of the easiest and most effective things Congress could do to fight poverty would be to expand a program that already works very well: Social Security.

TalkPoverty highlights the best 20 stories and op-eds that drew attention to critical but under-reported issues in America in the the past year.

Minimum wage campaigns should be the entry point to not only raise the bottom but also to challenge the tricks, skims and scams that concentrate wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people.

A ten-year study of the aftermath of one of Clinton's signature achievements revealed some surprising results.

A prerequisite for any adult conversation is telling the truth. The congressman falls monumentally short there.

About 80,000 people marched in North Carolina to push back against the conservative agenda, the largest protest in the South since Selma in 1965.

The presidential hopeful unveiled his new ideas, but it turns out they're not so new after all.

Congressional cuts to the food stamp program went into effect this week, making it much harder for struggling families to make ends meet.

The annual release of the Census poverty data is the one day the mainstream media will discuss poverty. But here are five other important findings you might have missed.

A new report released by the Cato Institute claims that the "current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincen­tive for work.”