With the continuing debate over budget priorities and social programs, Work & Happiness: The Human Cost of Welfare takes what some might feel is a controversial position: that it is the welfare system itself that keeps some people in a…
Although Gov. Christie vetoed a minimum wage increase this year, lawmakers, business leaders and worker advocates are still debating increasing the state's minimum wage to $15 per hour.
In rural Wilkesboro, North Carolina, nearly a quarter of residents live in poverty, well above the national rate. Residents there say their needs and concerns are not being discussed in the national political dialogue, which means for some, they won’t…
A group of low-income workers in New York City are getting a larger tax refund this year. It’s part of an experiment to see what would happen if the lawmakers expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit, a four-decade-old program with…
Six Republican presidential candidates met in Columbia, S.C. on Saturday to discuss an issue more closely associated with the party of F.D.R. and L.B.J. -- poverty. The forum was moderated by Sen. Tim Scott and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who…