This Week in Poverty: Fresno to Homeless People—Get Out This Week in Poverty: Fresno to Homeless People—Get Out
Fresno adopts a policy of seizing and destroying homeless residents' property and a local legal services non-profit fights back.
Mar 30, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
A Budget For Wall Street Versus A Budget For Main Street A Budget For Wall Street Versus A Budget For Main Street
Members of the US House will, in a series of votes Thursday, have an opportunity to offer their views not just on the Obama budget and Paul Ryan's budget, but also on the Congres...
Mar 28, 2012 / John Nichols
Ryan Budget Takes Aim at Resolution Authority Ryan Budget Takes Aim at Resolution Authority
Republicans are fighting Dodd-Frank's mechanism for dismantling failing financial firms.
Mar 28, 2012 / Pat Garofalo
Red States See Massive Public Sector Job Losses Red States See Massive Public Sector Job Losses
Twelve red states account for 70 percent of all state and local public sector jobs lost since 2010.
Mar 27, 2012 / Mike Konczal and Bryce Covert
Worker Ownership For the 21st Century? Worker Ownership For the 21st Century?
The country's largest industrial labor union is teaming up with the world’s largest worker-cooperative to put people to work in enterprises that build worker power.
Mar 27, 2012 / Laura Flanders
This Week in Poverty: Paul Ryan’s Focus on Dignity This Week in Poverty: Paul Ryan’s Focus on Dignity
The congressman’s moral rhetoric doesn't square with his cruel budget.
Mar 23, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
Five Ways to Slander the Welfare State Five Ways to Slander the Welfare State
Research exaggerating the costs of social safety nets has been used for decades to launch unwarranted claims against government programs.
Mar 21, 2012 / Feature / Peter H. Lindert
The Man Blocking America’s Recovery The Man Blocking America’s Recovery
With millions still on the verge of losing their homes, why is the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency standing in the way of solutions for the housing crisis?
Mar 21, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
An Economy We Want to Occupy An Economy We Want to Occupy
At a time when so many are so clear that the current system is not working—what might? Is it already happening?
Mar 21, 2012 / Laura Flanders
Ryan Budget Creates Political Peril For GOP Candidates, Including Paul Ryan Ryan Budget Creates Political Peril For GOP Candidates, Including Paul Ryan
The House Budget Committee chair sees his budget provoking a referendum on “the fundamental nature of American democracy and the social contract”—or, perhaps, th...
Mar 21, 2012 / John Nichols