Poverty

by Katie Fretland Women have a more pessimistic outlook of the country's economy than men, according to a new report by the National Women's Law Center. More women worry about their current and future economic situation -- 59 percent of......

by Tim Jones The percentage of working poor in large metropolitan areas soared by 40 percent during the first half of the decade, reversing gains from the 1990s in the fight against poverty, according to a report released Tuesday......

A development of potentially seismic proportion in Rudy Giuliani's world: Russell Harding, son of the former mayor's political guru Ray Harding, who headed the Liberal Party, has finished his jail term on embezzlement and other charges -- carried out...

by Frank James ACORN, the community organizing group, has become the incarnation of all that is unholy for many Republicans who accuse it of doing two things: trying to steal the presidential election for Sen. Barack Obama and causing the......

by William Neikirk They don't know each other, but Kay Flanery and Mary Ann Bell share something in common. They both saw their savings plunge during the stock market meltdown. Now, they both say they will have to work longer......

by Mark Silva President Bush has gone to Peru. But Bush, making his last scheduled trip abroad as president, has not gotten away from the economic crisis that has beset his nation and many others near the close of his......

Clinton is delivering her opening statement -- delivering a lecture on the importance of diplomacy and "smart power," which unfortunately she didn't seem to grasp when she voted to go to war in Iraq in 2002. Her opening statement is......

by Mark Silva As President George W. Bush and his writers place the final touches on 15 minutes of televisied talk that will deliver a farewell to the nation after two tumultuous terms in office, it's worth remembering the most......

by Mark Silva and updated We are hearing familiar words today, at the Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearing for Sen. Hillary Clinton's nomination as secretary of state -- words heard in President Bush's many various statements on the potential of....

by Janet Hook with Noam N. Levey, Jim Puzzanghera, Richard Simon and Jim Tankersley. . With Congress moving toward passage of an $800-billion-plus economic stimulus plan, big government is back. Unabashed. With a vengeance. The stimulus is bigger than...

by Mark Silva The House speaker's office, preparing for debate over the $789-billion "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act'' that Democratic leaders from both sides - and a few Senate Republicans - have agreed upon, has rolled out a long......

Here's what Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said three years ago as the nation's gap between rich and poor widened toward historic levels: "I think it's a very bad development. It's creating two societies. And it's based very much, I think, on...