Ray Perryman is the head of The Perryman Group and serves as a distinguished professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2022, 37.9 million people (11.5% the U.S. population), ...

Ever since Shipler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004), the term working poor has entered ...

Thanksgiving is a time for us to pause, take stock and give thanks. But gratitude rings hollow if we use it to look away from hardship — especially the kind hiding in plain sight. This year, as ...

It shouldn't come as a surprise. In a city that converted the common cup of joe into a high-priced addiction, a city that sports glittering stadiums and gleams with software millionaires, a city that ...

“My grandfather’s death, six months into the pandemic, is more than a tragedy,” Sarah Jones wrote at New York magazine, where she is a columnist, in late 2020. “His fate is as political as it is ...

The proposed changes to Medicaid are part of a comprehensive legislative package driven by House Republicans. This bill aims to offset the costs of significant tax cuts and other provisions, with ...

What happened to the American dream? The belief that through hard work families can give their children a more comfortable life than generations before them. We work harder today than ever before with ...

In July a team of researchers from a Harvard-affiliated research institute and the US Census Bureau released a study on economic mobility in the United States. The results, published in the article, ...

Low-income Mississippi residents face significant challenges in accessing affordable health care. In 2021, Mississippi had the fifth-highest uninsured rate in the country. Today, nearly one-in-five ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. What was your first thought when you heard the Republicans were seeking to impose new ...

The novel coronavirus hit the United States in February of 2020 and is causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19 is not the same as the coronaviruses that commonly circulate among humans ...