When most people hear the word poverty, they think of empty pockets, begging on the streets, or . However, poverty is much deeper than just not having money. It can affect your access to education, ...

It’s impossible to wholly describe what he has learned about Californians living in poverty during his tour across the state, but that word seems to wrap it up. The former mayor of Stockton, now the ...

America is an obscenely rich nation. We have supermarkets with 50 different brands of potato chips and mega-mansions sprouting like buffalo grass across the prairie and TVs the size of barns. With all ...

Why is there so much poverty in America? Matthew Desmond, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist, answers that complicated question in his latest book “Poverty, By America.” He argues that the United ...

The measure of poverty in the United States, a basic basket of essential food items, hasn't changed in almost 60 years. One other stop we need to make before we delve into a look back at the look back ...

John Halpin explains why progressives should focus less on reframing core ideas and more on building political will for policies that aid the poor. There are some voices in the progressive world that ...

Ours is an ever more unequal world, even if that subject is ever less attended to in this country. In his final book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote ...

Even after a prison sentence is served, the structural and cultural barriers to prosperity can exact a new debt on released convicts who have paid their debt to society—and keep them below the poverty ...

Poverty isn’t just about a lack of money. In fact the word poverty comes from the old French word poverté , which refers to a wretched state. It’s characterized by persistent instability that can ...