9 Best Articles in 2020
The Guardian
Obsession with ending poverty is where development is going wrong| Efosa Ojomo
The Guardian
~16 min read · 59 saves · From 2017 · Almost all development projects focus on alleviating poverty rather than creating prosperity. This is a fundamental flaw
Chicago Booth
How poverty changes your mind-set
Chicago Booth
~12 min read · 147 saves · From 2018 · Understanding psychology may be key to addressing the problem
medium.com
Why Do the Poor Make Such Poor Decisions? — Utopia for Realists — Medium
medium.com
10 min read · 56 saves · From 2016 · Our efforts to combat poverty are often based on a misconception: that the poor must pull themselves up out of the mire. But a…
The Guardian
A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
The Guardian
~20 min read · 87 saves · From 2017 · The UN’s Philip Alston is an expert on deprivation – and he wants to know why 41m Americans are living in poverty. The Guardian…
The Guardian
Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong
The Guardian
5 min read · 61 saves · 2019-01-29 · An infographic endorsed by the Davos set presents coerced proletarianisation as a triumph, says the academic Jason Hickel
In Open Source
André Staltz
Software below the poverty line
André Staltz
9 min read · 63 saves · 2019-06-13 · André Staltz Software below the poverty line Most people believe that open source sustainability is a difficult problem to solve. As an open source…
In Psychology
The New Yorker
The Psychology of Inequality
The New Yorker
~12 min read · 136 saves · From 2018 · Researchers find that much of the damage done by being poor comes from feeling poor.
The Economist
Why is everyone so busy?
The Economist
~16 min read · 160 saves · From 2017 · Time poverty is a problem partly of perception and partly of distribution
Our World in Data
Global Extreme Poverty
Our World in Data
10 saves · From 2015 · This entry is concerned with extreme poverty. The World Bank is the main source for global information on extreme poverty today and it sets the…
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The New York Times
8 Million Have Slipped Into Poverty Since May as Federal Aid Has Dried Up
The New York Times
7 min read · 122 saves · Oct 15th · Two new studies show the effect of the emergency $2 trillion package known as the Cares Act and what happened when the money ran…
Data & Society
Poverty Lawgorithms
Data & Society
11 saves · Sep 15th · A Poverty Lawyer’s Guide to Fighting Automated Decision-Making Harms on Low-Income Communities
Financial Times
How the pandemic deepened the poverty pit
Financial Times
13 saves · Sep 24th · ‘Once a family falls into extreme poverty, it may never rise again’
Vox
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s proposals could cut poverty in half
Vox
~13 min read · 11 saves · Oct 7th · Dylan Matthews · Democrats have a historic opportunity to lift 20 million people out of poverty.
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Our World in Data
World population living in extreme poverty, 1820-2015
Our World in Data
11 saves · From 2016 · Extreme poverty is defined as living at a consumption (or income) level below 1.90 "international $" per day. International $ are adjusted for price…
The Economist
As inequality grows, so does the political influence of the rich
The Economist
5 min read · 81 saves · From 2018 · Concentrated wealth leads to concentrated power
Esquire
4 Men with 4 Very Different Incomes Open Up About the Lives They Can Afford
Esquire
~11 min read · 72 saves · From 2016 · From a father on the poverty line to a CEO millionaire.
The New York Times
Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.
The New York Times
20+ min read · 134 saves · From 2018 · Matthew Desmond · U.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled. But for people without much education, the real question is, Do those jobs pay enough…
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The Software Development Poverty Trap
alexandros.resin.io
2 min read · 16 saves · From 2016 · According to wikipedia, A poverty trap is "any self-reinforcing mechanism which causes poverty to persist." If it persists from generation to generation, the trap…
TIME
Billionaires Made So Much Money Last Year They Could End Extreme Poverty Seven Times
TIME
1 min read · 21 saves · From 2018 · A new report sheds light on the widening wealth gap.
Longreads
The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor
Longreads
~15 min read · 53 saves · From 2018 · It’s a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.
The Atlantic
The Original Underclass
The Atlantic
47 saves · From 2016 · Waste people. Rubbish. Clay-eaters. Hillbillies. Reckoning with the long, bleak history of the country’s original underclass.
Our World in Data
A history of global living conditions in 5 charts
Our World in Data
~16 min read · 212 saves · From 2016 · A recent survey asked “All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?”. In…
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