Continuing to punish people after they have served time, as some states do, can be counterproductive to building safe and healthy communities.

To show the reality of hunger, mothers participating in the Witness to Hunger program photograph their daily experiences living in poverty.

Yet presidential aspirants won't talk about taming Wall Street because they need its campaign money.

Half of all renters spend more than 30 percent of their gross income on housing, while 27 percent spend more than 50 percent — both sharp increases over the last decade.

Read one struggling mom's efforts to keep her family afloat.

These policies could be pursued immediately, improving the lives and futures of millions of children and eventually saving taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars annually.

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A new presidential initiative holds a lot of promise for Native American youth who face more barriers to success than almost any other group in the country.

Let's end the spectacle of highly paid people, subsidized with our tax dollars, pondering the problem of inequality.

As the super-rich continue to get richer, many middle class Americans are finding themselves slipping into poverty.