Jobs are coming back, but pay isn’t. What's going on? Robert Reich explains.

Working women shouldn't have to worry about job security when raising a family. It's a right that policy makers should implement and protect.

Campaigns such as San Francisco's Retail Workers Bill of Rights have the potential to set workers up for more transformational fights, making bolder demands that confront corporate power and fight poverty and inequality.

Tonight, Obama must choose to focus on America's struggling middle class or on a global trade agenda that will benefit the few. He cannot do both.

The President's meeting with native teenagers made him "tear up in the Oval Office." His new agenda to help better their lives is huge step for low-income tribal communities across the country.

There is a widely-held myth constructed by the right that the people who struggle to make ends meet don’t want to work. But in reality, people are working harder and harder for less and less.

TalkPoverty highlights the best 20 stories and op-eds that drew attention to critical but under-reported issues in America in the the past year.

Perhaps the most revolutionary effort to end American inequality occurred almost 50 years ago and was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"It's crazy, it's unconscionable, but that is the reality," says noted MIT economist Simon Johnson.

When Martin Luther King Jr. died he was in the midst of planning a campaign to help the poor. "It is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis and a full-time job getting part-time income," King said.