The Nation’s Greg Kaufmann on his recent article “Appalachia gets special funding. The black rural south deserves it too. PLUS: We mark Valentine’s Day for millionaires with Social Security Works’s Alex Lawson.

This week on Off-Kilter, we break down the latest Trump budget with CAP’s Seth Hanlon and Lily Roberts, and Bobby Kogan, chief mathematician of the Senate Budget Committee.

CAP’s Shilpa Phadke on the push for nationwide paid leave, as the House takes up its first-ever hearing on the FAMILY Act—PLUS: a deep-dive with EPI’s Ben Zipperer on why expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit should go hand-in-hand with raising the minimum wage.

Ed Chung on the campaign to destroy bail reform in New York state—PLUS: Ezra Levin on the Indivisible movement three years on, his and Leah Greenberg’s new book, and the path to defeating Trump and Trumpism in 2020 and beyond.

Rebecca sits down with Jared Bernstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Angela Hanks of the Groundwork Collaborative, for a preview of the year to come and the issues, stories, trends, opportunities, and threats to watch in 2020 when it comes to poverty and inequality.

The Trump administration’s latest target for sabotage? The Social Security disability programs. PLUS: Trump’s final rule taking food assistance away from 700,000 struggling workers, explained.

The rise of the “working homeless,” and why housing insecurity in the U.S. is far worse than official stats suggest—PLUS: What the fight over means testing is really about.

Food insecurity among Philly’s student athletes; how philanthropy is benching women of color; PLUS: “You Can’t Eat Your Dreams. Hollywood Expects Assistants to Do Just That.”

“The Costs of Being Poor”…. How inflation inequality is causing more 3 million more people in poverty.

A conversation with some of the organizers behind The Forge, the new journal by and for organizers—PLUS: Off-Kilter takes a look at America’s “civil justice crisis.”