Last week, hundreds of people from the Poor People's Campaign assembled in Washington DC to fight against poverty.

Guard members have stepped up heroically during the pandemic. If we invested in more than just the military, maybe they wouldn’t have to.

Over 50 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr., said of the United States in his crucial “Beyond Vietnam” speech that: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” If we take King’s words seriously...

Source: Chart by National Priorities Project, data from USAspending.gov.  As Democrats negotiate the Build Back Better bill from $3.5 trillion (over ten years) down to $1.75 trillion over ten years, priorities like paid leave, free community college, and Medicare expansion for affordable prescriptions, dental, and vision care are all on...

Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?

 

By raising taxes on the wealthy and redirecting other public resources, we can meet everyone’s needs and strengthen our economy.

A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary.

What's the answer to declining births, labor shortages, and spending shortfalls? Immigration. Just ask Germany.

Three white Jeopardy contestants recently thought reparations had already been paid. It made me feel strangely optimistic.

People escaping violence have a right to seek safety. If they can’t, that’s the real crisis.