Clive Crook: The American Dream Needs Repair
Sooner or later the US will find itself grappling with an immense fiscal problem. The recession and stimulus have combined to produce record-breaking ...
Sooner or later the US will find itself grappling with an immense fiscal problem. The recession and stimulus have combined to produce record-breaking ...
Douglas Forbes | Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact
The population of New York, Florida and Washington D.C. combined represents the number of Americans who must currently choose between food or gas, between a doctor's visit or an electric bill... between life and death.
AP | Posted 09.29.2009 | Chicago
New data shows about 240,000 more Illinoisans lived in poverty in 2008 compared with 2000 and researchers say those statistics don't fully reflect the...
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
When it comes to lending a helping hand to poor people, there seems to be a double standard. The government requires states to match funds for poverty relief, while banks get stimulus money without a fee.
Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
A system which punishes the poor for reacting unexceptionally to their poverty has created a criminal class which views prison as a sort of career.
Louise Marie Roth | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
There is growing evidence that the neediest families are falling through the welfare cracks under the new regime, especially in this weak economy.
David Jones | Posted 08.08.2009 | Local
Cultural institutions which used to be free or very low cost have increased their admission fees to make it virtually impossible for anyone but the upper middle class and wealthy from attending them.
David Beckmann | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Measuring poverty in a way that more accurately reflects today's demands on a family's budget is necessary to ensure that no family is left behind.
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
There has been a lot of sexy talk about cutting poverty in half over the next 10 years. How is that going to happen if we don't have an accurate measure of how many poor people there are living in the US.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 07.11.2009 | Entertainment
This is a film that can be so moving in stunningly powerful ways that it may be tempting to avoid watching it.
McClatchy | Frank Greve | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- When Jody Richards saw a homeless man begging outside a downtown McDonald's recently, he bought the man a cheeseburger. There's nothing ...
Christopher Devine | Posted 06.19.2009 | Chicago
Overpriced ID cards may not be at the root of homelessness, but they do make for one hell of a stumbling block.
Sarah Burd-Sharps | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
It's tempting to say education can wait. But that would be shortsighted in ways both foolish and tragic.
Mark Shriver | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living
Last week, Save the Children Ambassador Jennifer Garner and I lobbied DC decision-makers to support an additional funding for private and public early-childhood-education programs.
Mark Shriver | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
While we all want the leaders gathered in London to deliver recovery in the months and years ahead, they should also act on the enduring lesson of this economic catastrophe: prevention.
Christopher Devine | Posted 04.16.2009 | Chicago
'I used to see guys who were on the street and homeless, and I just never fathomed that it could be me one day.'
David Henry Sterry | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living
Experts claim this is because the lifestyle of poor people has barely changed with the economic downturn. They were below the poverty before, and they're below the poverty level now.
Anita Weinberg | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
Aside from the obvious health benefits, lead removal from homes would accomplish the what the stimulus seeks -- creating jobs and reversing the economic impacts for low-income families.
Gloria Reuben | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
We must turn a critical eye inward, and face the fact that HIV/AIDS has reached crisis levels among the Black population of the US. The statistics are startling.
Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
A society cannot survive without a safety net and we don't have one during the worst economic crisis in decades.
Sally Kohn | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
While conservatives would have us think that the crisis we're in is a fluke, the reality is that we have all been standing on the curb of opportunity for far too long as prosperity passed us by.
Dave Cooper | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green
The coal industry doesn't want any regulation on coal waste, because it would hurt their corporate profits.
Joel Berg | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Had America ever chosen to do so, it could have wiped out domestic poverty and hunger far more rapidly than it could have achieved King's goals of racial equality or world peace.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago
The way to ensure no children get "left behind" isn't more cash to schools, it's more resources to people.
Sara Catania | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
We do not choose the presidents who are truly ours, who shape our lives and our psyches. They are chosen for us when we are too young to vote.
Clive Crook | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business