A Wake-Up Call on Housing and Homelessness
We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt from Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week in...
View ArticleA Pathway to Ending Homelessness: A Home
We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt from Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week in...
View ArticleAn Education Holiday Wish List
We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt from Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week in...
View ArticleHomeless in High Tech’s Shadow
California’s Silicon Valley is a microcosm of America’s new extremes of wealth and poverty. Business is better than it’s been in a decade, with companies like Facebook, Google and Apple minting...
View ArticleSequestration Means Less Affordable Housing, More Homelessness
We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt from Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week in...
View ArticleBill Moyers Essay: The United States of Inequality
The unprecedented level of economic inequality in America is undeniable. In an extended essay, Bill shares examples of the striking extremes of wealth and poverty across the country, including a video...
View ArticleAmerica is Ignoring Homeless Families
We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt from Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week in...
View ArticleCalifornia Works to Pass a Homeless Bill of Rights
We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt from Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week in...
View ArticleTwelve Things You Can Do To Fight Poverty Now
We’re proud to collaborate with The Nation in sharing insightful journalism related to income inequality in America. The following is an excerpt from Nation contributor Greg Kaufmann’s “This Week in...
View ArticleEncore: Living Outside Tribal Lines
Bill reports on striking extremes of wealth and poverty on display in California’s Silicon Valley. Facebook, Google, and Apple are minting millionaires while the area’s homeless — who’ve grown 20...
View ArticleMapping the Sequester’s Impact on Low-Income Housing
In April, Doug Rice, senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, released a paper that described some of the ways people would be affected by sequestration cuts to local...
View ArticleWill de Blasio Mean a More Affordable NYC?
NYC Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio talks to the media after voting, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, in the Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)Yesterday, New Yorkers went to the polls and...
View ArticleThe Four Biggest Economic Challenges Veterans Face
This piece first appeared in Think Progress.Job seeker Brett Culver, left, of Newalla, Oklahoma, formerly of the Air Force, talks with a Texas state trooper at a 'Recruit Military' job fair in Oklahoma...
View ArticleMorning Reads: EuroDrones and the Lobbyists’ Lobby’s Rebranding Effort
Good morning! Here are a few of the stories we’re reading over our coffee this AM at Moyers & Company HQ…Nadir? –> Public approval of Obama and his signature legislative achievement both hit new...
View ArticleMorning Reads: How Pope Francis is Resurrecting the Catholic Church and a...
Good morning! Today is International Human Rights Day, so try not to commit any heinous crimes. Here’s a look at some of the stories we’re reading on a snowy morning in New York City…Heartbreaking...
View ArticleAre Tiny Houses the Key to Fighting Homelessness?
This post first appeared in Yes! Magazine. An architect's rendering of Quixote Village in Olympia, Wash. Image courtesy of Panza. On a Saturday in September, more than 125 volunteers showed up with...
View ArticleHere’s What Happens When a City Isn’t Ready for an Explosion in Family...
Photo: Darrow Montgomery/Washington City Paper. This post originally appeared at Washington City Paper. Photos by Darrow Montgomery. For two weeks, Donnell Harris begged every morning for a motel room....
View Article10 Poverty Myths, Busted
In this photo taken on November 23, 2009, Lisa Zilligen, a single mother, serves lunch to her three children, Miles, 20 months, Olivia 6, left and Danielle, 8, in her home in Chicago. (AP Photo/M....
View ArticleMorning Reads: Snowden Reporters’ Public Service; Rick Perry Faces Investigation
Good morning! Today is Tax Day, and also the 149th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. It’s an appropriately nasty day here in NYC… Tax Day… At Truthout, Dean Baker uses the occasion to...
View ArticleA New Poor People’s Movement Must Have Leadership From Poor People
A homeless woman removes her belongings from an illegal camp in Portland. (Alex Milan Tracy/NurPhoto/Sipa USA via AP Images) This post originally appeared at Talk Poverty. Imagine if the US women’s...
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