The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – nearly 40 million – live in poverty. It's... The Roots of Poverty in America The United States is one ...
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 ...
Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond’s disquieting new book, “Poverty, by America,” succinctly makes the case that poverty persists in the world’s rich county not because we are spending less and ...
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 ...
Princeton sociologist Kathryn Edin has spent her career studying America’s poorest people in cities across the country. When she received an invitation to focus on America’s poorest places, she ...
Millions of Americans are living in communities mired in "deep disadvantage," mostly rural locations stuck in generational poverty, but where some residents experience health outcomes that shorten ...
Introduction : the indignant poor and the constants of relief -- Survive : my brother's keeper -- Sleep : a place to call home -- Eat : dumpster diving -- Work : (in)dependence -- Love : women and ...
"Why is there so much poverty in America, and what can we do about it?" Last spring, Matthew Desmond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," retooled ...
If anyone alive today merits Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights mantle, it’s the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. Cornel West, the theologian and independent presidential candidate, calls Barber the ...
A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.
Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...
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