The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?

The federal government is pretty good at handling the unique problems of seniors. Why don't we do the same for parents and kids?

Three consecutive presidents have changed the look of the country’s bills—not to address economic issues like inflation but to project their political values.

A $1,000 tax increase on someone making $30,000 isn’t just bad. It’s repugnant. Please, Democrats, say it.

The pandemic widened the gaps between the haves and have-nots—thus sowing the seeds of the next pandemic.

The West Virginia senator has floated means testing as a way of cutting costs, but his plan could have inadvertent negative effects.

We might be witnessing the demise—in uneven fits and starts—of Democrats’ poisonous “reform” thinking. All it took was a global health catastrophe.

There are structural reasons people are swayed by anti-vaccine propaganda. Sneering at the unvaccinated won't solve them.

Fears about a spike in abuse were proved wrong. Now mothers with firsthand experience of the system want to transform its approach to family safety, which is rooted in racist surveillance and carceral intervention.

Experts say the long-Covid crisis will mirror the pandemic itself, creating a “tsunami of disability” that will take a disproportionate toll on low-income people of color.

Landlords claiming extreme hardship are blaming eviction moratoriums for their troubles. These are misdirections we have to reject while rebuilding from the pandemic.

From The New York Times to Instagram, a recent genre of self-help writing wants you to think the last 16 months were really just an opportunity to become your best self.

Expanded child tax credit checks start going out to families this week. Finally, we have a government that is redistributing wealth in the right direction.

These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.

For those who live there, Chicago’s Ewing Annex Hotel is a refuge, an artifact, and a last chance. The man who’s been holding it together for more than 20 years is about to retire.

As more people are giving up traditional addresses for life on the road, some find themselves wondering if they escaped the grind or just found a new one.

“It’s not just a hashtag for us. All things are definitely on the table.”

People “saw what the governor and state legislature were trying to do, and it made people realize the importance of the funds,” one organizer said of the assault on reproductive rights.

On working amid paranoid customers, hungry shoplifters, sick co-workers, and people who just need a bathroom

A year of mass unemployment has revealed the failures of a cruelly designed, state-run system. We can build something better.