Jared Bernstein, Huffington Post. August 21, 2008. Going back to the 1940s, we've never completed an economic expansion where the middle-class family income failed to regain its prior peak.
Frances Moore Lappe, Huffington Post. August 18, 2008. Morning Edition's recent series on the food crisis reinforces dangerous myths that actually block us from seeing the real solutions to hunger.
Lisa Gray-Garcia, Poor Magazine. August 6, 2008. We can use the coming crises as the wake up call we need to change our communities and not just survive, but thrive.
David Korten, YES! Magazine. June 16, 2008. The day of reckoning for our reckless human ways that many of us have for decades warned would be coming is here.
Walden Bello, The Nation. May 23, 2008. In the years preceding Mexico's tortilla crisis, the country had been converted to a corn-importer by the IMF, the World Bank and Washington.
Gaylynn Burroughs, Ms. Magazine. May 23, 2008. Black children are twice as likely to enter U.S. foster care than white children. The culprit: our inattention to poverty.
Zephyr Teachout, The Nation. May 23, 2008. Apparently, in the United States, we don't have an upper class; we have elites -- a complimentary term that obscures true differences in opportunity.
Christy Hardin Smith, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. May 16, 2008. In endorsing Sen. Obama, John Edwards again made a plea on behalf of millions living in poverty.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. April 3, 2008. 40 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pointed to the link between war abroad and poverty at home. Sadly, his observation is just as true today.
Maxine Frith, The Independent UK. March 5, 2008. Rates of female participation in governments across the world are still appallingly low, and women face endemic discrimination in nearly all sectors.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. March 3, 2008. President Bush claims that Afghani women are "learning the blessings of freedom." But all we've given them is poverty, death and abuse.
Max Rameau, Movement Vision Lab. February 15, 2008. Let's be blunt. A government ban on the n-word does little to combat racism, poverty and oppression.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. January 30, 2008. Edwards did something that no one else did: He made poverty no longer a dirty word in the mouths of many.
Philip Barron, AlterNet AlterNet: Election 2008. January 30, 2008. Edwards' chief role in the 2008 presidential race had been that of progressive conscience/gadfly to the two frontrunners.
Adam Howard, AlterNet. January 21, 2008. People usually focus on the historic "I Have a Dream" speech, but it's the work King was doing at the end of his life that deserves more attention.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 8, 2007. The activist movie star talks with Tavis Smiley about his concern for America's poor and why he thinks John Edwards is the best presidential candidate to address their needs.
Lisa Gray-Garcia, AlterNet. December 4, 2007. As the film "Giuliani Time" reveals, rarely has one man so successfully harnessed the hatred and ignorance of the U.S. public for poor people and people of color.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. November 26, 2007. Media outlets aren't just giving short shrift to organized labor. The avoidance extends to unorganized labor, too.
Gregory Clark, Princeton University Press. November 21, 2007. Is income from immigration the best hope for developing countries? Gregory Clark's book "A Farewell to Alms" explores the wealth, and the poverty, of nations.
