From the Sunday after Easter to the 4th of July, I’ve published the Poverty, God, Politics series of webcasts and companion blog posts....

The Catholic bishops this week took a step toward denying communion to President Biden. John Carr’s insightful, 32-minute discussion of...

President Biden has this week launched an international initiative to bring COVID under control all over the world. We know from his...

Long-term polling data indicates that political participation among low-income and less educated voters has been consistently low for...

I’m encouraged by examples of low-income people and people of color becoming more active and influential in U.S. politics. This is a...

African Americans turned out to vote in 2020 and tipped the results of the election in several swing states. They now have influence and...

President Biden’s first big piece of legislation, the American Rescue Plan, is already delivering very substantial help to low-income...

This is an unusually personal post. Eight months after retiring from Bread for the World, I’m now teaching in Berkeley and, at the same...

U.S. policies have shifted more to the benefit of poor and near-poor people in President Biden’s first month than in any month in the...

Donald Trump consistently does what’s in his self-interest. We’ve come to know him and must expect that he will do everything he can to...

The nation is exhausted by COVID and now more deeply divided by President Trump’s shameless challenge to the election results. But in the...

I’m excited to share that I’ve been appointed a Joint Fellow by Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and the Church Divinity School...

I am grateful for the leadership of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in the early days of this dangerous post-election...

For many years I worked in a bipartisan way to pass legislation to reduce hunger. But I’m no longer the primary spokesperson for Bread...

Vice President Biden has charted a course to put us on track toward ending poverty in America. A diverse array of church leaders have...

Tomorrow, Sunday, August 30th, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the Biden-Harris campaign will launch Believers for Biden, its program of...

For the last 30 years, I have worked with administrations, members of Congress, and citizens in both parties to secure help and...

“You cannot give up, and you cannot give in.” So said Congressman John Lewis, whose lifetime of prayerful struggle for racial equality we...

We each need to contact our three members of Congress in the next few days. The pandemic has increased hunger in our country and the...

Hunger is surging in our country and around the world. A new Brookings Institution survey reveals that 40 percent of U.S. mothers with...