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

The National Priorities Project's Mattea Kramer highlights some of the key provisions of President Obama's 2014 budget, which was released this week.

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.

A year before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described "two Americas" -- one prosperous, one desperately poor. Not much has changed since 1967.

California's Silicon Valley illustrates striking disparities at the extremes of wealth and poverty in America.

College tuition and fees are higher than ever, but graduating students are less likely to find jobs to cover the costs.