This Week in Poverty: Ignoring Homeless Families This Week in Poverty: Ignoring Homeless Families
Family homelessness is on the rise and the federal government is choosing not to respond.
Apr 19, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
Life in the Cellar Life in the Cellar
New York’s housing crisis has pushed hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers underground.
Apr 18, 2013 / Suketu Mehta
‘I Jumped to Save My Body’: Walmart Slammed Over Nicaragua Stabbings and Bangladesh Fire ‘I Jumped to Save My Body’: Walmart Slammed Over Nicaragua Stabbings and Bangladesh Fire
Apparel workers are demanding action from the retail giant following a deadly factory fire and a set of beatings and stabbings allegedly fomented by a contractor.
Apr 18, 2013 / Josh Eidelson
The Legacy of the 1970s Fiscal Crisis The Legacy of the 1970s Fiscal Crisis
Nearly forty years after Ford told New York to drop dead, the city is still here—but forever changed.
Apr 16, 2013 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein
A Wall Street State of Mind A Wall Street State of Mind
How a city that once celebrated seamstresses and stevedores came to admire "big swinging dicks."
Apr 16, 2013 / Feature / Steve Fraser
Tax Loopholes for All! Tax Loopholes for All!
Tax Day is here, and you can avail yourself of an offshore tax haven—just as the biggest businesses do.
Apr 15, 2013 / Laura Flanders
The Development Agenda: An Interview With UNDP Administrator Helen Clark The Development Agenda: An Interview With UNDP Administrator Helen Clark
Clark discusses the work of UNDP, the launch of the 2013 Human Development Report in Mexico, the Millennium Development Goals and the many challenges that the UN will face in the f...
Apr 12, 2013 / Catherine Defontaine
This Week in Poverty: Banks Got Nowhere to Run To, Baby This Week in Poverty: Banks Got Nowhere to Run To, Baby
The Big Banks are fleeing activists and shareholders who are challenging their bad practices. They can run, but they can't hide.
Apr 12, 2013 / Greg Kaufmann
How Did Margaret Thatcher Do It? How Did Margaret Thatcher Do It?
In every way, her agenda opposed the interests of ordinary working people. How did she get so many of them to vote against their own economic interests again and again?
Apr 9, 2013 / Column / Gary Younge
The Gilded City The Gilded City
Struggling to survive in Bloomberg’s New York.
Apr 9, 2013 / The Nation