10+ Best Articles on Poverty

1. Once upon a time, around 2014, I began writing What’s Mine. It will be a novel about someone whose home gets invaded by this annoying person, I wrote to my agent. It turns out this annoying pers…

There's a lot missing from debates and policy surrounding poverty but the biggest deficit, according to Dr C. Nicole Mason, is in honesty. Impoverished people aren't poor because they're lazy, they're…

«they need to provide better infrastructure (like libraries, parks, good grocery stores, and hospitals)»

We won't help the environment or the poor by valorizing poverty and decline.

Imagine the federal government could lift millions of American children out of poverty with a single program. That program would help parents put nutritious mea…

«The expanded tax credit ended in December 2021, and chances are low it will be renewed. That tells you all you need to know about which is more powerful in Washington — politicians’ biases or actual evidence.»

In a new book, Matthew Desmond argues that to understand what keeps people poor, we need to take a good look at the rich.

The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.

The global poverty line helps determine how billions of dollars in aid are allocated. But where did the idea of measuring poverty come from — and how might it be holding us back?

Urban density was once seen as a sign of unhealthiness and poverty. But today it is necessary to make cities sustainable

And why everyone’s ignoring it

“For me, passing means trying to be anything other than what I was, and what I fear so desperately I always will be: poor white trash.”

The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.