Reporter Mitchell Hartman discusses the need for Marketplace's new Wealth & Poverty desk.

Walter Mosley's new book, "All I Did Was Shoot My Man," is more than a mystery novel. Both Mosley and his recurring protagonist, Leonid McGill, take on issues of economic injustice, inequality and the inevitable world of capitalism we live in.

More than 40 percent of Americans are too "asset poor" to weather a job loss for three months.

Is Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich justified in calling President Obama the "Food Stamp President?"

School-subsidized lunch programs report staggering numbers of students in need of help.

Unemployment and foreclosures have forced many more households to cut budgets to the bone this year. How some families are coping with the holidays now that they're no longer middle class.

There is growing disparity between the "haves" and the "have nots," but most Americans say they don't think the government should focus on closing the gap

Higher health care costs could be what's pushing more of the elderly into poverty.

The number of people under the official poverty line in the United States is higher than it has been in 50 years: more than 46 million people, more…

The number of poor children drops under unofficial poverty measure that counts benefits such as food stamps and costs such as childcare.