Sheila Kennedy

More than one in three Indiana households cannot afford the basics of housing, food, health care and transportation, despite working 40 or more hours a week. We Americans tend to be...

It may be time to re-conceptualize our social safety net. Most of the people who refer to a social safety net use the term as shorthand for a variety of...

Infrastructure spending should benefit the public good, but Donald Trump’s plan benefits private interests at the expense of the rest of us.  One of the very worst ideas getting championed by...

Expanding, not cutting, the social safety net remains the key to creating a more just and peaceful society. But safety nets wither in deeply unequal nations. I tend to harp...