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Ever since the September 7 Republican debate, a lot of attention has been paid to Governor Rick Perry's executive decision requiring that young girls receive a vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV). Perry's measure was admirable: Persistent HPV infections are the primary cause of cervical and anal

Americans rightly scoffed at Congressman John Flemming (R-FL) when he complained about only bringing home a net profit of $400,000 from his business. Never mind that Flemming is also paid $174,000 as a member of Congress. The more important point is that the Florida representative belongs to a

A new report from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards looks at economic well-being in Canada and the Provinces over a nearly 30-year period. Instead of using Gross Domestic Product to determine economic well-being, however, the new report uses a different indicator called the Index of

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who a few months ago said Blacks were "getting tired" of the president's unresponsiveness to Black unemployment, is now on the bandwagon. In response to the American Jobs Act (AJA), the Hill blog quoted the Congresswoman saying, "[President Obama] heard [the Black

Today is the opening day of Climate Week NYC, a week long event that brings together high-level government officials, advocates and businesses to promote a “clean industrial revolution.” While only in its third year, Climate Week has successfully brought diverse interests together to plan for a

Audi runs ads in hopes of selling cars. That’s what ads are supposed to do. But, in yesterday’s New York Times, a full-page ad for the Audi A6 appeared twice and it not only aimed to sell cars, it promoted the idea that wealthy Americans can buy protection from the public decay likely to surround us

Both groups also saw the wealth they acquired evaporate almost over night. Hispanics lost 66 percent of their wealth and Blacks lost 54 percent.

We, the undersigned -- non-partisan, not-for-profit organizations that work across the country and in Texas to protect the voting rights of African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans -- write to oppose the preclearance of Texas’s Senate Photo Voter Identification law, Bill 14 (“SB14” or “Act”)

One last point about the new poverty numbers, which is that they show that elderly poverty remains a major problem in the United States. Conventional wisdom holds that seniors are doing just fine in the U.S. and that this is one area where the war on poverty was a big success. Well, not quite. Yes

As we continue to mine the new poverty statistics over here from the Census Bureau, here is a statistics that many people will find surprising: The poverty rate for naturalized U.S. citizens is 10.8 percent, while that for native born Americans is 13.7 percent. (The figure for foreign born residents