The World Food Program says that the number of people suffering acute food insecurity has jumped to 345 million, with 49 million...

It’s good news that Congress this week approved appropriations legislation for the current fiscal year. The budget and appropriations...

These 17 Republican senators and all the Democratic senators voted together last night to begin debate on the bipartisan infrastructure...

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

This week’s webcast features Henry Brady, one of the nation’s foremost political scientists and dean of the Goldman School of Public...

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

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...

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...

My friend Devry Boughner Vorwerk focuses her new podcast on my “new venture” to connect politics, spirituality, and social justice. I...

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

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...

Today is my first day after retiring from nearly three decades as the president of Bread for the World. My heart is awash in gratitude....