Trump administration and Republican policies, from the One Big Beautiful Bill to proposed Census changes, are pushing more households into poverty. Immigrants are hit hardest.
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Posted inHealth Care
Before the Fall
The number of Americans without health insurance is soaring this year. Last week’s Census Bureau report on the uninsured rate for 2025 is the last good news we’ll get for a while.
Posted inPolitics
Why We Need a New Dickens
Everyone cares about Oliver Twist. Now we need to help the Artful Dodgers.
Posted inPolitics
Why We Need a New Dickens
Everyone cares about Oliver Twist. Now we need to help the Artful Dodgers.
Posted inFeatured
VIDEO: Anne Kim Discusses “Poverty for Profit” with Paul Glastris
‘Poverty for Profit’ pulls back the curtain on a vast, predatory corporate sector that few middle-class Americans know anything about. In the video below, author Anne Kim discussed the book with Washington Monthly Editor-in-Chief Paul Glastris.
Posted inMagazine
Poverty, Inc.
Government’s decades-old experiment in letting corporations deliver social services has been a disaster—for taxpayers and the poor.
Posted inPolitics
How America Stopped Caring About the Poor
The “war on poverty” once animated voters. Now we’ll be lucky if Biden’s child tax credit survives.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
The False Promise of Microfinance
In the 1990s and 2000s, the policy idea was all the rage. But now, its inability to fight poverty has become painfully apparent.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Biden’s Housing Plan Could Save Millions of Children’s Futures
The president and Democratic leaders want to break a key link in the chain reaction of poverty. Why are Manchin and Sinema trying to stop them?
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
The Expanded Child Tax Credit Isn’t Selling Itself
Democrats presumed sending out checks would build public support for extending the policy. It didn’t. They need to find out why.
