This would be the cheapest, most efficient way to end extreme poverty, and it would cost about $30 billion per year. But, ...

Matthew Desmond’s experiences growing up in poverty prompted him to take a stand as a poverty abolitionist. “Ending poverty is gonna require new policies and new political movements, but it also will ...

Man, I thought I was busy in college. Between juggling two part-time jobs, caring for my younger sibling, and trying to keep up with my coursework, I felt like I was constantly running on empty. Turns ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Childhood poverty was associated with increases in externalizing problems, but not internalizing, over time in ...

There has, for many years, been a tendency in the US to treat poverty as if it were something like leprosy, a contagious disease that is, something that must be avoided by good and healthy people. In ...

Can poverty exacerbate mental health problems among the youngest family members? A new study by an international team, including a researcher from SWPS University, demonstrates that financial problems ...

STORY: Mayotte was already struggling with overcrowding, illness and poverty before the devastating Cyclone Chido swept through the French region. But these problems are now being compounded, in what ...

Ladywell, in Birmingham, has the highest levels, with 62% of children living in relative poverty. In some areas of Leeds, ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem. A mother and son living in a Walmart parking lot in North Dakota in 2012.Credit...Eugene Richards Supported by ...

The opening pages of The Other America set out the problem: There was a “familiar America” of postwar prosperity, of televisions and radios and automobiles and suburban homes, and then there was a ...

The persistence of American poverty. “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice. Early in my college teaching career, upon sharing an incidental detail of my ...

I saw a lot of socialist experiments in Latin America and the results weren't pretty. If Americans want to see how badly socialism works, they don't have to go far. Beginning with Cuba's Fidel Castro ...