I joke sometimes that my dream is to pay off my student loans before I retire, but to be honest, that probably won’t happen. It wouldn’t surprise me if I have them with me the rest of my life. ...

Divided government no longer works. David Horsey writes in the Los Angeles Times: "The best thing that can happen is that one party or the other wins both th ...

Plight of the 99 percent being ignored. Writing for The Huffington Post .  Jeffrey P. Colin argues: "With election campaigning in full swing now, many of the u ...

The emerging generation needs to push its own new agenda for economic growth. Writing for The Daily Beast today, Joel Kotkin argues: The developed world’s youth s ...

Improving education is key to addressing global poverty. For The Huffington Post ,  Robert Gallucci writes: Around the world, 35 million girls who should be in ...

Who or What is to Blame for the Struggling Economy? John Hudson  of  The Atlantic  writes: "Everyone agrees the latest jobs report is a disaster, but economists ...

Jim Rice Fairness matters, especially for people on society’s margins—and that conviction goes far beyond tax equity to every aspect of p ...

Vincent Miller Seeing corporations as people, are we making ourselves over in their image? ARE CORPORATIONS “ ...

Elizabeth Palmberg Angela Glover Blackwell believes in Detroit's future, and she has a vision for how to get there. Failure is not a ...

Bill Wylie-Kellermann Michigan's "Emergency Manager" law and Detroit's future. A big chan ...

Korla Masters Detroiters often use the phoenix rising from the ashes as a metaphor for the city's resilience. Worms might be just as ...

churches: Chloe (1 Corinthians 1:11), Crispus and Gaius (1:14), and Stephanas (1:16; 16:17). Unlike his ... of demons (10:14-22), the table of the domination system that God opposes. But by not attending ... 10-13). Not a Supper of the Lord! 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 The context of chapters 11 to 14 ...

Watching TV is bad for kids' self-esteem, except if they're white boys.   Watching TV is bad for kids' self-esteem, except if they're white boys. (Seems li ...

$4.95 COVER Inside The Mind Of A Hate Group Behind the scenes at Westboro Baptist Church FEATURES Resurrecting D ...

on $14K/year probably isn’t in the top ten… "…former Sen. Alan Simpson recently referred to a group ... retirees who receive an average annual Social Security benefit of $14,000 as “greedy,” a new issue ... on $14K/year probably isn’t in the top ten… Economic Justice,payroll tax cap,social security ...

Campaign finance and the Citizens United decision A good history in The New Yorker of attempts at regulating campaign finance leading to the Citizens United case befor ...

According to CAP, there is a striking correlation between the decline of infrastructure and the rise of inequality over the past four decades. In a thought-provoking piece for  ...

U.S. has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world. From  Think Progress :  According to a new report from the Office of Research at the United Nat ...

CBS  reported yesterday: Illinois hospitals would be required to provide free surgeries and other inpatient care to many uninsured poor people under a bill the Legislature passed Tuesday, a mandate already on the books in eight other states. ...

Members of the G8 announced its commitment to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition which will seek to “lift 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years through inclusive and sustained a ...

The face of aging in America isn't a pretty one. Not because the flesh is sagging, but because the nation that once built schools, malls and suburbs for baby boomer families when they were young has turne ...

Understanding the significance of political space and Occupy's inability to recapture it reveals why the movement is having difficulty re-gaining traction A key figure in the ...

For  The Washington Post ,  Jonathan Capehart  fears that the Occupy movement won't survive if it doesn't adapt: If Occupy doesn’t use this time to get actively involved in political process, it will never move from protest to pow ...

Writing for  Tom's Dispatch  and  The Huffington Post ,  Christopher Hellman  and  Mattea Kramer  estimate what the U.S. really spends on national security: National security accounts for one quarter of every dollar the federal ...

“This new alliance – is a nice complement at best, a deflection at worst. The role of the private sector is important, but they will not be able to make up for the G8’s broken promises...Smallholder farmers ne ...

For  The Nation ,  Greg Kaufmann  writes: The long-term unemployed now make up over 40 percent of all unemployed workers, and 3.3 percent of the labor force. In the past six decades, the previous highs for these figures were 26 percent and ...

From the Chicago Sun-Times: Several thousand protesters spent five hours peacefully chanting, singing and marching against war. At the end, nearly 40 young veterans dramatically took their military medals and ...

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"Crops need sunlight. So does resource extraction. Both need sunlight’s disinfecting glare," Bono told the G8 symposium on food security and agriculture. "Isn’t transparency the vaccine to preve ...

One of the things which struck me was how strong the GlobalMay Statement, is on the climate and environmental crises. Several days ago a document, the “GlobalMay Statement,” show ...

European financial crisis. Paul Krugman looks at the European financial crisis and sees Apocalypse Fairly Soon . Suddenly, it has become easy to see how the euro — that gr ...

Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security, Advancing Food and Nutrition Security at the 2012 G8 Summit, will begin at 8 a.m. The Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food S ...

Barbara Ehrenreich invetigates the growing practice of businesses and government making money off of the poorest in society. Barbara Ehrenreich  invetigates the growing practic ...

The  National Journal' s  Jim Tankersley  writes: There’s one idea, though, that TED’s organizers recently decided was too controversial to spread: the notion that widening income inequality is a bad thing for America, and that as a re ...

For The Nation, Ari Berman argues that President Obama must hold Wall Street accountable. For  The Nation ,  Ari Berman  argues that President Obama must hold Wall Street ...

In the latest edition of The Economist, a new theory on how to tackle poverty: offer hope. In the latest edition of  The Economist , a new theory on how to tackle poverty: o ...

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council says government is wrong way to handle poverty. In a heated discussion with  MSNBC 's  Martin Bashir , Tony Perkins of the ...

The Hill reports on a new poll focussing on the country's economic prospects. The Hill  reports on a new poll focussing on the country's economic prospects: ...

The U.S. Catholic Bishops weighed in on the budget again yesterday. A letter signed by Bishop Stephen E. Blaire, Chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and sent to Members of the ...

For most of the other 364 days of the year, the lives of women and mothers are undervalued. There is a beautiful story that some Christians have learned to tell about motherhood. ...

Over at Think Progress, Scott Keys reports on Rep. Allen West's latest comments. Over at  Think Progress ,  Scott Keys  reports on Rep. Allen West's latest comme ...

David Brooks examines what he perceives as the coming 'structural revolution' in the global economy. For the  International Herald Tribune  yesterday,  David Broo ...

Andrew Leonard examines the latest consumer borrowing figures for Salon.   Andrew Leonard  examines the latest consumer borrowing figures for  Salon : "Consu ...

For USA Today, Michelle Healy analyzes a new report on the state of motherhood around the globe. For  USA Today ,  Michelle Healy  analyzes a new report on the state of mo ...

Why are advanced economies so seemingly immune to correct diagnosis and prescription?   Jared Bernstein  of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities takes a look at the e ...

The Huffington Post reports on the drastic rise in the number of people with advanced degrees who are also reliant on government welfare. The Huffington Post  reports on th ...

Motions on the ballots at the annual meetings of Bank of America and 3M will act as referenda on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case. From  Newsweek M ...

On the Politico opinion pages, Jason Ackerman examines how food assistance programs could be better utilized. On the  Politico  opinion pages,  Jason Ackerman  examines ho ...

Yes, I know that health-care costs have spiraled out of control. Yes, I understand that the government will not be able to afford Medicare much longer, especially since the ratio of workers to retired people h ...

The Boston Globe reports on a new partnership between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The Boston Globe reports on a new partnership between ...