For the first time in at least 50 years, low income students are now a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation’s public schools.

Five years after Citizens United, legislators are re-introducing a package of bills designed to chip away at the decision and bring back democracy.

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.

Tonight, Obama must choose to focus on America's struggling middle class or on a global trade agenda that will benefit the few. He cannot do both.

Walmart, the country’s largest private employer, pays 825,000 workers less than $25,000 a year. The president needs to push it to pay its low-wage workers more.

Journalist and creator of the TV series The Wire talks about the crisis of capitalism in America and how it's dividing our country.

The president only included a vague throwaway line about trade.

Close to 3,000 people weighed in on the Bill Moyers Facebook page with comments on President Obama's speech last night. Here's what they had to say.

What if, instead of tying the minimum wage to the cost of living, we tied it to the earnings of the top 1 percent?