Poverty

Everyone Who Cares About the Poor Should Vote

Investigation Shows Inequality in School Funding Is a Legacy of Racial Injustice

Justice Department Warns State and Local Courts Against Fine and Fee Practices That Punish the Poor

The Plight of the Poor: Raw Sewage in Lowndes County

Private Prison Phone Companies Lobbied for Criminalization of Cell Phones in Prisons

Disproportionate Pretrial Detention of People of Color Drives Mass Incarceration

Federal Government Moves to Boost Hiring of People Returning Home from Prison

FCC Officially Reduces Prison Phone Call Rates

Poor Alabamians Who Cannot Pay Fines Told to Give Blood or Face Jail Time

Black Students in Deep South Face Obstacles to Overcoming Poverty

U.S. Justice Department Finds Ferguson Police and Courts Targeted African Americans

After More than 20 Years, Innocent Illinois Man’s Sentence Is Commuted

Private Companies Profit from Charging High Fees to Prisoners and Their Families

Alabama Towns and Private Probation Company Turn “Poverty Into A Prison Sentence”

1 in 6 Americans in Poverty, Revised Census Measure Finds

Unethical Lawyer Was Not Ineffective, Supreme Court Holds