Remembrances of the late author have focused on her best-selling Nickel and Dimed with only rare acknowledgement of the major roles she played in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.

A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

We must end the widespread practice of funding government budgets by extorting poor people apprehended for minor offenses.

Ron Howard’s Netflix adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy continues a long tradition of seeing hillbillies as a symbol of pristine American whiteness.

Everyone agrees that child poverty is a problem. Why are Democrats and Republicans so bad at addressing it?

Monarch butterflies may be gone in thirty years. Saving them seems apolitical, but environmentalists have landed in the sights of drug cartels, illegal loggers, Trump supporters, and even clandestine avocado farmers.

Conservatives have long been sounding the alarm about “undeserving” people receiving public assistance.

Despite President Bolsonaro's COVID-19 denialism, a small Brazilian city has one of the most ambitious responses in the world.

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.

Kenya's poor were among the first to benefit from digital lending apps; now they call it slavery.

The Mass Bail Out at Rikers Island shows that freedom is a critical part of public safety.

The persistence of black poverty has become a permanent feature of U.S. democracy. We need an expanded political imagination to dismantle it.

The moral right of states to apprehend and deport irregular migrants erodes with the passage of time.

J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy has been held up as a guidebook for understanding the 2016 election, but his logic is rooted in an enduring and dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.

Vijay Prashad on writing, struggle, and hope in difficult times.

Critics of raising the minimum wage claim that it decreases employment, but they are missing the larger point.

A recent conference made it clear: military and corporate interests will prevail.

Basic income is a seductive poison that would benefit the margins of society at the expense of the middle class and immigrants.

A basic income that supplemented existing welfare structures could make everyone safer while ending the most pernicious forms of policing.

Recipients of basic income continue to work, spend less on vice, and are able to invest in long-term plans.

Two new books argue that the student debt crisis is a media myth. But they ignore the exploitation of disadvantaged students by for-profit colleges.

States are stealing from orphans to pad their budgets. And it's legal.

How did we come to view social insurance as socialist?