9 Best Articles in 2022
Our World in Data
Global poverty in an unequal world: Who is considered poor in a rich country? And what does…
Our World in Data
5 min read · 2021-03-05 · What does global poverty look like if we rely on the notions of poverty in countries like Denmark, the US, or Germany? And how should this perspective inform our aspirations for the future of global…
Reader View · Shared by 224, including Damir Kusar, Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie
FiveThirtyEight
Congress Found An Easy Way To Fix Child Poverty. Then It Walked Away.
FiveThirtyEight
6 min read · Mar 30th · 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…
jasonhickel.org
Extreme poverty isn’t natural, it’s created
jasonhickel.org
4 min read · 2021-03-28 · New research questions the dominant narrative about long-term poverty trends.
Reader View · Shared by 206, including David Wallace-Wells, sircharlsxavier, Christopher Mims 🤌, Alejandro Dominguez, grimm
Our World in Data
The history of the end of poverty has just begun
Our World in Data
6 min read · Jan 11th · The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.
Reader View · Shared by 133, including Max Roser, Dr Jordan B Peterson, Steven Pinker, Simon Kuestenmacher
The Guardian
Obsession with ending poverty is where development is going wrong| Efosa Ojomo
The Guardian
~16 min read · From 2017 · Almost all development projects focus on alleviating poverty rather than creating prosperity. This is a fundamental flaw
Reader View · Shared by 63, including Sara Usinger, Nir Eyal, Florian Hanke 🍎, Dez S. Papp, Mark Kaigwa, Manas, Aamir Raz, Severin Hacker, Thomas Power
Chicago Booth
How poverty changes your mind-set
Chicago Booth
~13 min read · From 2018 · Understanding psychology may be key to addressing the problem
Reader View · Shared by 156, including Martina Grolimund, Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund, Dominik Grolimund, Philipp Laurim, Ward Plunet, Dominic Grzbielok, Vincenzo Tremonte, Florian Hanke 🍎, Tauno, John Hues, passingafternoon, Helmi, Gabriele, Alain, Cassidy
Aeon+Psyche
Why we shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty
Aeon+Psyche
9 min read · Feb 16th · Living in poverty is not caused by a faulty mindset, it’s a response to scarcity and marginalisation
Our World in Data
Extreme poverty: how far have we come, how far do we still have to go?
Our World in Data
3 min read · 2021-11-22 · Despite making immense progress against extreme poverty, it is still the reality for every tenth person in the world.
Reader View · Shared by 94, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, John Hagel, Max Roser, Steven Pinker, Katja Evertz
MIT Technology Review
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty
MIT Technology Review
9 min read · 2020-12-04 · A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor from housing, jobs, and basic services.
Reader View · Shared by 518, including John Tasioulas, César Sepúlveda, l. ones, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Ben Jones, Carla Gentry, Jose Luis Calvo, Marcus Borba, Gabriele, Tim, niazakhan, Mark Kaigwa, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Terence Mills, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, John Koetsier, Memen Isimo, Gerd Leonhard, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Nige Willson
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FiveThirtyEight
Congress Found An Easy Way To Fix Child Poverty. Then It Walked Away.
FiveThirtyEight
6 min read · Mar 30th · 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 New York Times
Haiti’s Lost Billions
The New York Times
1 min read · May 20th · The staggering sum Haiti paid for its independence cemented its path to poverty.
Shared by 138, including Yo Mama and Yo Cousin Too, Kainaz Amaria, Howard Getson, Lydia Polgreen
YES! Magazine
What the Abortion Bans Have to do With Poverty and Race
YES! Magazine
9 min read · May 22nd · As I weighed my options and briefly flirted with the idea of becoming a parent, I thought about the life that I would be able to provide my child.
The Conversation
1 in 6 US kids are in families below the poverty line
The Conversation
5 min read · May 22nd · In the United States, children are more likely to experience poverty than people over 18.
Reader View · Shared by 30
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André Staltz
Software below the poverty line
André Staltz
9 min read · From 2019 · André Staltz Software below the poverty line Most people believe that open source sustainability is a difficult problem to solve. As an open source developer myself, my own perspective to this problem…
Reader View · Shared by 65, including Joe Lencioni, Jonathan Kogan, Mohamed Azazy, Thomas Wong, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
The Guardian
A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
The Guardian
~20 min read · 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 joined him on a special two-week mission into the dark heart of the world’s richest nation
Reader View · Shared by 89, including Merkstatt, Bjorn Larsen, Nils Hitze, Isabel Drost-Fromm, Marcel Janus, Thomas Power, Jane
Vox
The big drop in American poverty during the pandemic, explained
Vox
10 min read · 2021-08-11 · The lesson from the past year: Poverty is a policy choice.
Reader View · Shared by 63, including Brooks Rainwater, PhilanTopic, Darrick Hamilton, Kainaz Amaria, CentSai, Scott Santens
The Guardian
Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong
The Guardian
6 min read · From 2019 · An infographic endorsed by the Davos set presents coerced proletarianisation as a triumph, says the academic Jason Hickel
Reader View · Shared by 80, including David Bauer, Max Roser, Marcel Janus, PhilanTopic, luis antónio santos, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Tauno, Ashoka Mukpo, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Alf Rehn
Our World in Data
Breaking out of the Malthusian trap: How pandemics allow us to understand why our ancestors lived in…
Our World in Data
~12 min read · 2020-11-26 · For much of human history there was no escape from poverty. Our ancestors were trapped in an economy in which incomes were determined by the size of the population. Productivity gains did not raise…
Reader View · Shared by 59, including Mark Lynas, John Hagel, Keerthi G, Max Roser, Paul Krugman
medium.com
Why Do the Poor Make Such Poor Decisions? — Utopia for Realists — Medium
medium.com
10 min read · 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…
Shared by 59, including Nir Eyal, Andrei Luca, Mathew Ingram, Moritz von Hase, Sara Usinger
econofact.org
Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth
econofact.org
6 min read · 2021-05-03 · About 1.1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last 25 years. Broad-based growth is the most important source of poverty reduction.
Reader View · Shared by 49, including Alex Tabarrok, Max Roser, William Easterly, Monika Bütler 🇨🇭🇺🇦, Brad DeLong 🖖, Michael Clemens, Michael Nielsen
NPR's Planet Money
How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive
NPR's Planet Money
2 min read · 2021-02-02 · A new study adds to the growing mountain of evidence that says that poverty impairs people's ability to think.
Reader View · Shared by 44, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Ron Avocado, Esther Schindler, Doug Sundheim, Matthias Lampe, Ben Miller, Kainaz Amaria
The Washington Post
Nearly 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the summer
The Washington Post
2020-12-16 · America’s poverty rate has risen at the fastest pace ever this year after aid for the unemployed declined.
Shared by 48, including W. David Stephenson, PhilanTopic, Ibram X. Kendi, Scott McLeod, Carl Zimmer, Dr. Tony G. Reames, Frank Luntz, Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷, Vala Afshar, Dr. Oni Blackstock, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Yo Mama and Yo Cousin Too
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