Since the recession started, America's richest have seen their earnings bounce back while everyone else’s have stayed the same.

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

Activist and author Saru Jayaraman urges Americans to support better pay and working conditions for waiters and kitchen staff in restaurants.

Instead of helping America's crime-ridden communities, putting more men in prison for longer has had a devastating effect.

The impact of concentrated poverty — and of racial and socioeconomic segregation — on student achievement has gone unaddressed for too long.

Jessica González-Rojas and Lynn Paltrow join Bill to look at the issues fueling today's reproductive rights debate.

Blackmun, who wrote the majority opinion in the landmark abortion rights case, called it a necessary step "towards the emancipation of women."

Abortion rights activists talks to Bill about the how the modern debate over reproductive rights connects to other social justice issues.

Could committing to a contract grow and unify the moment against poverty?

In our staff meeting this morning, Bill gave a heartfelt tribute to Aaron Swartz, the activist and Internet prodigy who took his own life on Friday.