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A minimum wage worker who wants to afford a two-bedroom apartment has to hold down nearly three full-time jobs.

Moms Demand Action-backed candidates succeed by emphasizing community safety, depoliticizing gun reform, and addressing fears of school shootings.

Fortunately, there are those -- who receive very little high-profile media ink -- that challenge the purpose and priorities of our twinned economic and physical wars. But they deserve allies in media – who don’t just seek to promote the lesser evil – but a world worthy of our humanity and of our potential.

If we want to create a vibrant middle class, we have to abandon slogans and simplistic solutions and understand the bigger picture.

From fossil fuel extraction, production, use, recycling and disposal, the study concluded that plastics are a "grave, growing, and under-recognized danger" causing disease and death.

Coalition says Florida teenager Mohammed Ibrahim’s life is on the line after months without family contact or medical care.

Currently, one in five American adults cannot afford to get prescription medication that they need.

A study published this week in Nature projects that wildfire smoke will cause approximately 71,000 excess deaths each year by 2050 under current emissions trends—an increase of roughly 30,000 deaths over today’s levels.

It’s time to demand that the economic system work for all of us.

The President has "worked himself into such a tizzy over the TPP." While his progressive friends in Congress are questioning the secret trade agreement, Obama is lashing out at them in a pathetic show of presidential petulance.