Essays

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America’s Invisible Poor

Dan Glickman

Paul Ryan’s Budget Undermines the Best of America

Sister Simone Campbell

Inequality: Shifting the Spotlight From Wall Street to Your Street

Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis

Minimum Wage Workers Should Get a Raise

Heidi Shierholz

How We Can Help Families in Poverty

Olivia Golden

Building a caring economy

Ai-jen Poo

Poverty at Home

Ray Offenheiser

GOP budget fails moral standard

Jim Wallis

We face clear moral choices in priorities of our federal budget

Rev. Peg Chemberlin

We have a wealth gap, and military is poorer for it

Roger R. Blunt and Paul D. Monroe Jr.

Inequality is hindering economic growth

Jacob Hacker and Nathaniel Loewentheil

Budget priorities must shift from military to human needs

Maj. Gen. George, A. Buskirk (Ret.) and Rev. Stanley Wachtstetter

Immigration reform must keep families together, out of poverty

Maria Rodriguez

Caregiving should be middle class work

Deborah Weinstein

A system designed for and by the people

Kirsten Lodal

Waiting tables, serving diners and receiving rock-bottom wages

Saru Jayaraman

Reframing the debate about "living within our means"

Robert Reich

Want to help Colorado’s poor? Stop fossil fuel subsidies

Rev. Dr. James Ryan and Bradley Wood

America's yawning racial wealth gap

Benjamin Jealous

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Melissa Boteach

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Angela Glover Blackwell

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Uri Dadush

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Bill Shore

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Tamara Draut

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Jodie Levin-Epstein

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Tim Smeeding