Rev. Rob Stephens discusses the General Assembly during a press conference on April 24, 2024 in Raleigh. (Photo: Greg Childress) On Wednesday, nearly 200 supporters of the North Carolina Poor People’s ...

The expansion of the child tax credits under the American Rescue Plan halved child poverty. When the policy ended, child poverty shot back up. This year, 11 states either created a state-level child ...

Despite the false promises of neoliberal capitalism and its tireless ideological cheerleaders, capitalism has always ...

Now that the dust has settled from the election, I hope that Congressman Jim Hagedorn will begin to work towards bipartisan, humane, long-term ways to address employment and poverty. Current attempts ...

It has long been said that Americans have short attention spans, but this is ridiculous: Our bold, urgent, far-reaching, post-Katrina war on poverty lasted maybe a month. Credit for our ability to ...

Although government spending on the child welfare system totaled US$33 billion in 2018, the most recent year for which an estimate is available, it’s still failing to meet all children’s needs because ...

Federal aid programs stopped New Yorkers from falling into poverty despite the economic upheaval caused by the pandemic—but the demise of those policies threatens to undo much of the progress, ...

Christian E. Weller and Luke Reidenbach write at Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity about solutions for reducing persistent poverty among minority populations in the United States. Nearly 40 million ...

Rachel Reeves promised a cost-of-living budget, and on some measures, she delivered.

This week, we introduced a congressional resolution asserting that we can end poverty in the richest country on Earth. We've had the opportunity to study poverty deeply. Rep. Lee has chaired the ...