Senior Poverty: Now You Know
If you listened only to the cable news debates on the future of Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, you’d never know. If you read only about the policy proposals to cut these valuable programs,...
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Top 10 Solutions to Cut Poverty and Grow the Middle Class
Yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual figures on income, poverty, and health insurance. It revealed that four years into the economic recovery, economic insecurity remains widespread,...
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Activists and Scholars Respond to the New Poverty Data
This week, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that there was a statistically significant decline in poverty last year. It is the first decline since 2006, and just the second since 2000. Worth...
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4 Things Communities must do to become a Promise Zone
As the federal government invests in nutrition, health, education, and job-training programs that keep families out of poverty, complementary investments to strengthen high-poverty communities across...
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In Our Backyard Interview: Understanding Poverty and Inequality in D.C.
This interview with the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) kicks off a series of interviews with D.C. service providers, advocates, and low-income people for TalkPoverty’s In Our Backyard project....
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The Unfair Price: Poverty in the LGBT Community
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Census Bureau released updated poverty numbers for 2013. You probably already know the depressing story – poverty rates remained relatively unchanged across the country; the...
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Boosting Economic Mobility through the EITC
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of our nation’s most effective anti-poverty programs, helping more than 6.5 million Americans—including 3.3 million children—avoid poverty in 2012. The EITC...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Awareness Month: Current Policy Choices Aid Abusers
Since the passage of the Violence Against Women Act twenty years ago, opinions among the public and politicians have shifted remarkably from viewing domestic violence as a private family matter to...
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In Our Backyard Interview: Safety from Domestic Violence is an Economic Issue
Last month, we observed Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). More than 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men will experience rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their...
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Raising the Minimum Wage and Affordable Child Care Go Hand in Hand
A few years ago, a young man named Israel and his wife enrolled their daughter in one of our Early Head Start programs. Israel, the son of Mexican immigrants, worked long hours as a barber. His wife...
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The Faces of Senior Poverty Are Likely Women of Color
Imagine the face of senior poverty. Who do you see? If you see a woman, especially a woman of color, you’d be spot on. That’s because the same challenges that affect women in their younger years,...
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Leave No Civilian Behind
This article is cross-posted at BillMoyers.com. Roughly 1.4 million veterans live in poverty in the United States, and, in total, more than 45 million people live at or below the poverty line. These...
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BillMoyers.com & TalkPoverty: 12 Days, 12 Actions You Can Take to Fight Poverty
TalkPoverty.org is proud to collaborate with BillMoyers.com as it focuses exclusively on poverty coverage over the next two weeks. Every day, visit BillMoyers.com to discover a new action you can take...
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Social Security Disability Insurance: Too Important for Politicking
When Congress reconvened earlier this month, House Republicans wasted no time in attacking the Social Security program. They passed a rules package that includes language to prevent the House of...
View ArticleCivil legal assistance saves money and helps people escape poverty
Sargent Shriver, President Johnson’s personal choice to lead the War on Poverty, was once asked which anti-poverty program he considered the most important. “My favorite is Head Start because it was my...
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President’s Budget: Increasing Mobility and Opportunity for All
In his State of the Union address, President Obama put a laser-like focus on “middle-class economics”, calling for policies that ensure every American has a fair shot at economic security. While the...
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Lessons from Across the Pond: What the US Should and Shouldn’t Take Away from...
Conservatives have long called for combining and freezing federal funding for key health, nutrition, and income security programs and then handing those funds over to the states. As evidenced by the...
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A 5-Step Plan for Fighting Senior Poverty
When we talk about fighting poverty in the United States, the conversation is often focused on preventative measures such as education or jobs. Thanks to this focus, poverty prevention programs,...
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Retaking the Moral High Ground in the Fight Against Poverty
If a nation has the ways and means to solve a social problem that is devastating millions of its citizens’ lives, but it fails to act, doesn’t that mean resolving the problem depends more on moral...
View ArticleIs the American Dream Shifting?
For much of the past decade, The Pew Charitable Trusts has been studying the health and status of the American Dream, defined as the ability of families to move up the economic ladder over a lifetime...
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