Quote of the Day, January 18, 2013, excerpted from The Nation.com’s “This Week in Poverty” by Greg Kaufmann: People are beginning to recognize that we have a prol[...]

Quote of the Day, January 8, 2012, excerpted from TheNation.com‘s “A White House Meeting with Low-Income Americans”  by Greg Kaufmann  Throughout these budget tal[...]

Quote of the Day, January 7, 2013, excerpted from Center on Budget and Policy Priorities‘ commentary by Robert Greenstein: In recent days, policymakers, pundits, and the medi[...]

Quote of the Day – December 5, 2012 “There’s an inability of workers to find new jobs, and those that do are not making as much as before,” says Janice King[...]

DC Hunger Solutions is sponsoring the 2012 Food Stamp Challenge in the nations capital. The Food Stamp Challenge gives participants a view of what life can be like for millions of [...]

Quote of the Day – September 18, 2012 […] low-income households as a group do, in fact, pay federal taxes.  Congressional Budget Office data show that the poorest fifth of ho[...]

Truancy courts are hitting students with harsh penalties and collecting millions of dollars in fines. But are they addressing the real problems?[...]

The Lipstick Profiteers Mary Kay’s biggest revenue source may be the dreams of its own pink-clad sales force. Originally posted at OtherWords and reprinted with permission. B[...]

Quote of the Day, August 6, 2012 Rising income inequality has led to a growing number of Americans clustering in neighborhoods in which most residents are like them, either similar[...]

It’s still dark when I show up at the Labor Ready storefront in downtown Oakland, California, just a few blocks from the plaza where the Occupy crowd threw up its tents again[...]