by Zachariah Oquenda | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog
Source: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson Originally posted on Talkpoverty.org After we packed what was left of our belongings into our rusted-out minivan, my siblings and I loaded in to avoid the rain. We squeezed in among the garbage bags full of clothes, the kitchen...
by Patrick McNeil and Indi Dutta-Gupta | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog
Originally posted on The Leadership Conference Education Fund After a quarter century, change has yet to come for tipped workers in the United States. Since 1991 – the last time the federal tipped minimum wage was increased – the first iPod was released and Google...
by Kali Grant and Indi Dutta-Gupta | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog
First published on TalkPoverty.org and cross-posted on BillMoyers.com. This Saturday, a number of Republican presidential candidates will converge in South Carolina to debate and discuss “fighting poverty and expanding opportunity in America.” We hope that they...
by LaDonna Pavetti, Peter Edelman and Indi Dutta-Gupta | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog
Cross-posted by several other media outlets, including Billmoyers.com and Commondreams.org. A new book by two of our nation’s foremost poverty researchers, Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, reveals the desperate circumstances that hundreds of thousands of children and...
by Erin Simpson | Aug 10, 2015 | Blog
Originally posted on TalkPoverty.org When President Obama recently announced the ConnectHome initiative in the auditorium of Oklahoma’s Durant High School, he again stated that the Internet is a necessity, not a luxury. No kidding, Mr. President. This isn’t news to...
by Indi Dutta-Gupta | Apr 22, 2015 | Blog
Inequalities in income, wealth, and opportunity have risen to virtually unprecedented levels. In Affluence and Influence, political scientist Martin Gilens demonstrates that in policy disagreements between the most well-off and everyone else, the wealthy consistently...
by Peter Edelman | Jul 10, 2014 | Blog
Originally posted on TalkPoverty.org. Cross-posted on BillMoyers.com. This has been a summer of half-century commemorations, wonderful and gruesome. Last week we celebrated the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the greatest and most important advance in civil rights...
