The New Yorker maps average incomes around every subway stop in New York City. It's quite a ride.

While it’s a great testament to our nation’s progress to have stories about Obama’s smart girls, Reniqua Allen writes that we need to make “ordinary” black kids a commonplace as well.

Deborah Weinstein says the best things in the president's budget probably won't became policy, while the not-so-great things probably will.

In an extended essay, Bill shares striking extremes of wealth and poverty across the country.

The high-tech mecca is a stark example of a nationwide trend.

In 1967, the civil rights leader spoke of a society in which the chasm between rich and poor is tragically wide and deep. Sound familar?

Isaiah J. Poole says the African-American unemployment crisis may hurt Democrats politically if President Obama doesn't address it soon.

Sadly, not all that much progress has been made since the Mad Men days in terms of the perennial gender pay gap.

Because of sequestration, a bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.

See images of poverty from around the nation documented by photojournalists from AmericanPoverty.org.