Advocates argue that to continue progress, civil legal aid must be deployed more broadly in future efforts to combat poverty.

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.

Perhaps the most revolutionary effort to end American inequality occurred almost 50 years ago and was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It's time for an anti-poverty contract that addresses minimum wages, paid sick leave, childcare, ending child hunger and ensuring that no one willing to work becomes destitute.

The Republican from Wisconsin has borrowed some populist rhetoric to go with his “kinder, gentler” talk about poverty. But his populism is not the real thing.

New research has found that the language used to describe struggling Americans is turning off the very people it's supposed to help.

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

Like the New Deal before it, the Great Society changed the way Americans thought about the relationship of the government to the economy.

Bill discusses our country's most successful effort to cut poverty with another veteran of that fight, Peter Edelman, who is today one of the leading experts on poverty.

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