Review thought-provoking articles and columns about Detroit's bankruptcy and what it says about the past and future of America's cities.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has the opportunity to listen to and learn from an advocate on the front lines of the poverty battle tomorrow. Will he take it?

In contrast to rubbish that passes for conversation about hunger in Congress, NYC's recent Forum on the Future of Food offered substantive food for thought.

Nearly two million working Americans make even less than the minimum because of various exemptions.

While the House continues kowtowing, United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard praises a select few in the Senate are working to tame the banks.

A new study shows that your potential for climbing the income ladder in the United States is largely dependent on your hometown.

In Richmond, Calif., home prices plummeted 58 percent since their peak. Now the city is trying out a new way to help homeowners refinance—and halt the slide into foreclosure.

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship reveal how the owners of capital wring even greater wealth from the sweat and sacrifice of workers, deepening America's economic inequality.

Baldemar Velásquez discusses the struggle to ensure fairness for American farmworkers, and Tom Diaz describes how self-defense and concealed-carry laws makes us more vulnerable to gun violence.

Baldemar Velásquez talks about the ongoing David vs. Goliath struggles to ensure fairness for American farmworkers.