The presidential hopeful unveiled his new ideas, but it turns out they're not so new after all.

The war on poverty helped raise millions above the poverty line, but where do we stand today?

A poverty activist asks how we might create the political will to make significant strides in the fight against poverty.

Fifty years after the War on Poverty began, poverty remains a serious problem. US Census figures show that most urban areas have neighborhoods with high poverty rates.

America has been redistributing upward for some time -- “trickle-down” economics turned out to be trickle up -- but we outdid ourselves in 2013.

A do-nothing Congress does nothing to prevent the one percent from grabbing an ever-larger piece of the pie.

We asked some of the people trying to change the world for the better to tell us what made them proud in 2013, and what their hopes and dreams are for 2014.

This week Harold Meyerson reported in The Washington Post that Democrats are looking to take a page out of the Bush playbook as we approach the 2014 midterms.

North Carolina, long considered the South's most moderate state, has taken a hard right turn, but Moral Mondays protesters are fighting back. Is this where American politics is heading? Also on the show, the paint industry is ordered to clean up its mess.

Bill shares good news on the decades-long fight to protect children from the dangers of lead-based paint.