This Week in Poverty: Anti-Poverty Leaders Discuss the Need for a Shared Agenda This Week in Poverty: Anti-Poverty Leaders Discuss the Need for a Shared Agenda
Anti-poverty leaders discuss the need to move from just playing defense to working together to achieve a shared agenda.
Nov 25, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Tantalizing Mockery of Thanksgiving, 1931 This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Tantalizing Mockery of Thanksgiving, 1931
President Hoover's holiday proclamation was offensive to millions of poor and unemployed Americans, our 'Drifter' columnist wrote.
Nov 23, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Right-Wing Author Abandons Cultural Populism, Decries ‘White Trash’ Right-Wing Author Abandons Cultural Populism, Decries ‘White Trash’
Charlotte Hays’s “When Did White Trash Become the New Normal?” reveals a right that’s stopped masking its contempt for average Americans.
Nov 21, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Michelle Goldberg
Inequality Is (Literally) Killing America Inequality Is (Literally) Killing America
As the disparity between rich and poor has grown, so have gaps in life expectancy between counties, towns, and even neighborhoods.
Nov 20, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter
Just Deserts Just Deserts
Being poor in the United States has rarely meant anything so simple as having too little money.
Nov 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Szalai
Witnesses to Hunger (and Poverty) on the Hill Witnesses to Hunger (and Poverty) on the Hill
Five Witnesses to Hunger came to Capitol Hill to talk poverty and hunger with Congress.
Nov 19, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
Elizabeth Warren Comes Out for Expanding Social Security Elizabeth Warren Comes Out for Expanding Social Security
Warren used rampant 2016 speculation to juice an important debate over expanded benefits.
Nov 18, 2013 / George Zornick
Momentum Forms Around Extending Long-Term Unemployment Insurance Momentum Forms Around Extending Long-Term Unemployment Insurance
Democrats are now unified in extended the crucial benefits--will Republicans go along?
Nov 15, 2013 / George Zornick
Could a Socialist Actually Win Seattle’s City Council Race? Yes Could a Socialist Actually Win Seattle’s City Council Race? Yes
The $15-an-hour wage candidate Kshama Sawant takes the lead in a “historic” citywide race.
Nov 14, 2013 / John Nichols
Elizabeth Warren to Regulators, Congress: End ‘Too Big to Fail’ Elizabeth Warren to Regulators, Congress: End ‘Too Big to Fail’
In a speech Tuesday the Massachusetts senator offered an indictment of the enforcers and lawmakers who have failed to rein in the financial system.
Nov 13, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter