October 19, 2012Several recent studies indicates that income inequality may slow economic growth.
October 14, 2012Paul Ryan may not have a plan for reducing poverty, but advocates in his home state have devised a plan to reduce poverty over 50 percent.
October 10, 2012Check out Need to Know''s visit to a swing state at the center of the renewable energy debate.
October 4, 2012Mitt Romney twice brought up a NFIB study during the debate that claims small businesses would suffer under Obama's tax plan. Find out more about the study.
September 26, 2012She tells ThinkProgress that Romney's comments showed that he is “out of touch” and “has no idea how hard it is at the margins of our society.”
September 19, 2012The Guardian has a put together a map of the United States showing how different statistical groups are distributed by state.
September 14, 2012In this excerpt from Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson explain the significance of the Powell Memorandum, a call-to-arms for American corporations written by Virginia lawyer (and future U.S. Supreme Court justice) Lewis Powell to a neighbor working with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In the fall of 1972, the venerable National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) made a ...
September 13, 2012The number of people living in poverty is the highest the Census Bureau has ever recorded, but when will rhetoric give way to results?
September 7, 2012The recession continues to hurt many families across the country with record-high levels of food insecurity.
September 7, 2012 | Moyers & CompanyBill discusses the power of independent thinking with Senator Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala.
