Matthew Desmond, the 43-year-old Princeton sociologist whose last book, Evicted, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is back with another one, Poverty, by…

Fourteen-year-old Callie Lawson is living with a broken bedroom door perpetually ajar, leaking privacy. A teenager’s nightmare. That’s just one of the many…

The narrative that Social Security eats up government revenue, driving the federal debt upward, is deeply entrenched in the Republican Party’s psyche. Former-Vice President…

Is your salary less than $160,200? If so, you’re among the 94 percent of American workers who pay into Social Security all year long.…

Dilhani worked for six years in a Sri Lankan factory that makes clothes for Nike. She is one of millions of South…

I’m one of the 84 million Americans who get our health care through Medicaid. And I’m one of the 18 million who might lose…

We’re in the middle of an affordable housing crisis. We can’t solve it without drastically increasing government funding for public housing. Brenda…

As congressional Republicans threaten to cut Social Security and other key federal programs, progressive Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren led a…

A few weeks ago, the world’s power brokers — politicians, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires — met in Davos, the mountainous Swiss resort town,…

The super-rich have done phenomenally well over the course of the pandemic. Since March 2020, U.S. billionaires have increased their wealth by 50% and the world’s 10 richest…