Could a Federal jobs guarantee succeed where the Federal Reserve has not?

We want prosperity to be widely shared. We need policies to make that happen.

Today I rise in solidarity with my union brothers and sisters in support of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. Over the last few decades, we have seen the right to unionize, to ban together, and to fight for the collective rights…

I think we eliminated debtors' prisons in something like 1833.

To be clear, unless you believe that poverty is a character flaw, there is absolutely no justification for triple-digit interest rate installment loans.

In times of struggle, the options shouldn't be a debt trap interest rate or nothing at all.

Mr. Peterson's research is just one more case study into our continued criminalization of poverty and the weaponization of the legal system against those who are already living on the margins.

Exempt income is income that you need for basic necessities--food, medicine, rent--and income that, like Social Security, other forms of pension, public benefits, and certain amounts of wages, are exempt from collectors, because we don't…

40 percent of American households don't have $400 to meet an emergency need.

Poverty is not a character flaw; it is a result of failed and often cruel policymaking.

This is child abuse. This is elder abuse. This is abuse, period--par for the course of this administration, where the cruelty is the point.

I still hear from folks in my district, Massachusetts 7th, and across the State, about the continued availability and marketing of these predatory loans.