In the October 2015 issue of The Atlantic, award-winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates has penned an expansive and compelling cover story...

This piece marks the 40th installment of “The Anti-Poverty Solder” during which I have addressed the specific issue of racial...

In many ways the face of poverty outside of America might seem different to us. On the other hand it...

I still remember the astonishment I felt when reading the 2008 Minnesota Kid’s Count Report published by the Children’s Defense...

Shelterforce began, 40 years ago, as a newspaper for tenant organizers. They were legal aid lawyers and similar rabble rousers...

A few weeks ago I introduced a column discussing the official U.S. poverty rate by referencing the 2011 poverty bus...

In recent weeks, several media outlets and employment-focused nonprofit agencies have highlighted the sharp increase in the number of metro...

The modern environmental movement has its roots in social and political ideologies that stretch all the way back to the...

During the summer of 2008, art would imitate life in New York as Michael Bloomberg implemented a more meticulous and...

Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties operates the largest Energy Assistance Program in the state.