New York's billionaire mayor is so opposed to a tiny raise for workers at companies that get public money that he's vowed to sue. What's the deal with living wage laws anyway?
May Day, the Occupy movement and the 99 percent narrative have raised the voices of low-wage workers who joined together under the banner "Organize, Legalize, and Unionize."
According to current rubrics, David Chura and his former students were educational "failures." But after 40 years working with kids, Chura isn't buying that notion.
A college education allowed Powell to escape the poverty of his childhood. Now he's striving to keep the college dream alive for kids in similar circumstances.
Courtney E. Martin, Noliwe Rooks, AlterNet. April 2, 2012.
Why is the stunning increase in the levels of poverty so muted during this campaign season? Why are the solutions coming out of either party so hard to find?
In a recent essay, Teach for America's founder argues again that her teaching corps is good for America's schools. One long-time teacher offers his view on why that just isn't so.
An interview with Frances Fox Piven, a political scientist and activist whose writings on poverty, welfare rights, and protest movements have infuriated the Right.
Convicted of larceny for improperly enrolling her son in school, a mother now faces 12 years behind bars. What do poverty and racism have to do with her conviction? Everything.
James Gustave Speth, Orion Magazine. March 1, 2012.
The data is piling up to confirm that we’re Number One, but in exactly the way we don’t want to be—at the bottom. Where did we go wrong and what can we do about it?
I call myself frayed white collar -- part of the privileged poor. I'm a semi-accomplished, mid-career journalist and writer, but now I'm hurtling precipitously toward poverty.
blank blank, Campaign for America's Future. January 16, 2012.
This holiday weekend we'll see a lot of media coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr, but we will hear very little about why he is as relevant today as ever.
