(Slate) – President Obama appeared on a Georgetown-sponsored public policy panel Tuesday and, in addition to making everyone laugh a few times, he participated for about...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn’t your typical panel discussion: President Barack Obama sat down Tuesday with leading thinkers from the left and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The recent Department of Justice report on police and court practices in Ferguson, Mo. put a much needed spotlight...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist There are many different manifestations of racism in America and throughout the world. But there is not a...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist More than 88,000 people have applied to enter the “poor door” at a new luxury condominium tower on the...
Adam Nagourney and Jack Healy, THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPTON, Calif. (The New York Times) — Alysia Thomas, a stay-at-home mother in this working-class city, tells...
(The Washington Post) – Lawmakers in several states are urging limits on how welfare recipients use public benefits, suggesting that the poor are buying things like lobster, filet mignon, vacations aboard...
JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas law tells poor families that they can’t use cash assistance from the state to...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer African-Americans continue to suffer disproportionately high rates of hunger and poverty despite the growing economy, according to an...
(CBS News) – For all its apparent conveniences and perks, city living has never been easy or inexpensive. And income inequality is often most obvious...
Paul Hampel, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (STLToday.com)—Federal class-action lawsuits filed Sunday against the cities of Jennings and Ferguson allege that jails there operate as...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The racial differential in the poverty rate is staggering. Last time I checked, about 12 percent people in the United...
(The Atlantic) – Like many mothers raising children in Chicago’s housing projects in the 1990s and 2000s, Seitia Harris was afraid of the drugs and...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sixteen million children were on food stamps as of last year, the highest number since the nation’s economy...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now have the resources to get...
(The Economic Populist) – Yes, the rich pay more in taxes (because they earn so much more) — but they don’t usually pay more as a...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future,...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “Like the rest of America, Black America, in the aggregate, is better off now than it was when I...
ALBERTO ARCE, Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Roberto Castellanos has the hands of a construction worker and the homework of a 6th grader. Roberto, who...
Brian Melley, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — In courtrooms across the country every day, a price tag is put on the freedom of the accused...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Each year at Halloween, our neighborhoods are bustling as children go door to door dressed as zombies, vampires, skeletons or...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Just released U.S. Census Bureau data reveal 45.3 million people were poor in America in 2013. One in three of...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist When many people hear child poverty in America the first stereotype is of an inner city child and discussions...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he...
MEMPHIS (Politico) — On one side of South Lauderdale Ave. sits the Foote Homes, among the last of the old federal housing projects that once proliferated...
