Economy

A Crowd-Sourced Escape From Poverty?

A Crowd-Sourced Escape From Poverty? A Crowd-Sourced Escape From Poverty?

An Internet fairy tale for the age of austerity: Linda Tirado’s essay about being poor and making bad decisions could catapult her into the middle-class.

Nov 25, 2013 / Michelle Goldberg

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 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 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’ 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

Row house in Baltimore

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

JPMorgan Agrees to Historic Settlement—Is It Enough?

JPMorgan Agrees to Historic Settlement—Is It Enough? JPMorgan Agrees to Historic Settlement—Is It Enough?

The settlement with one of the nation’s biggest banks is historic—what should be next?

Nov 20, 2013 / George Zornick

Just Deserts

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

Labor Board Sides With Workers: Walmart Can’t Silence Employees Any Longer

Labor Board Sides With Workers: Walmart Can’t Silence Employees Any Longer Labor Board Sides With Workers: Walmart Can’t Silence Employees Any Longer

A landmark ruling by the National Labor Relations Board says Walmart unlawfully harassed and fired employees for protesting.

Nov 19, 2013 / Peter Dreier

CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts

CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts CEOs With Massive Retirement Fortunes Push Social Security Cuts

Members of Business Roundtable, a corporate lobby advocating for cuts to retirees’ benefts, have retirement acounts more than 1,200 times the size of the median American work...

Nov 19, 2013 / Zoë Carpenter

Witnesses to Hunger (and Poverty) on the Hill

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

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