A viral claim that $140K is the "real poverty line" has sparked debate over what it takes to be middle class in 2025.

The government puts the poverty line for a family of four at $32,150. But a Wall Street portfolio manager has ignited a ...

There are times when the good deeds that happen by the magic of the Internet make us quite giddy. This time? Well, this time they make us cringe, to the tune of $100,000. If you haven’t read the ...

To most people, it doesn’t look like a young, multi-lingual woman who’s successfully raising a family and getting published in the Huffington Post. But one viral post about how “Poverty is bleak and ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Louise Skolnik, professor emeritus of social work at Adelphi University and former Nassau County director of human services and deputy commissioner of the county ...

When I set out to write this essay, I had little concrete idea of what I sought to achieve. I knew that there was something unique about becoming an academic from a situation of clear poverty, and ...

Malawi’s GDP growth per capita has been low, averaging 1.5 % per year between 2010 and 2019 with minimal impact to reduce poverty. For every three Malawians that moved out of poverty be¬tween 2010 and ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. In my previous article, I shared a little bit about the experience of poverty, and how that ...