In his new book, Chris Arnade lays bare what life is like for America’s marginalized poor – and exposes the broken social systems that...

Ralph da Costa Nunez:   President, Institute For Children, Poverty & Homelessness – Posted: 03/14/2012 5:23 pm When U.S. attorney general...

Rep. Chaka Fattah: Representative,  Pennsylvania’s 2nd Congressional District Posted: March 12, 2011 12:24 PM House Republicans have...

Ralph da Costa Nunez: President, Institute For Children, Poverty & Homelessness Posted: December 16, 2010 12:00 PM Welfare as we knew it...

make the poem like the hood couches and three legged chairs at the curb scrawled graffiti on abandon buildings fetid damp smell...

Like an image from an Ansel Adams photograph, his dark brown skin stretched thin over a face that has seen better days. He hurried down...