poverty

Food deserts are a problem. One solution might already exist.

Healthy Housing Foundation has purchased four properties in Los Angeles, with more planned.

Few realize that the US was once “ruled” by a beloved monarch from San Francisco.

There is no one answer. But there are 10.

The Oxfam report prompted Anand Giridharadas to tweet: “Don’t be Pinkered into everything’s-getting-better complacency.”

Financial literacy programs turns girls into powerful economic contributors.

Bishop Jahwar saw first-hand that prison often doesn’t work as intended.

As it turns out, the effects of the minimum wage increase are more nuanced than previously espoused.

At what point does spending billions on rocket technology seem irresponsible to those suffering on Earth?

Most other countries don’t have universal healthcare because of poverty or war. Why does the U.S. keep clinging to a bad system?

South Africa is no longer the only place on the continent that has urban wealth clusters

Millennials would rather pay off their student debt than spend money getting hitched.

We all love the art, but we often forget the difficulty of being an artist. Here are some of the most famous, greatest writers of all time who never could quite make a living doing it. 

The Industrial Revolution brought along the second agricultural revolution, the unthinkable transformations of entire ecosystems, the collapse of the family and community, and the ethics of consumerism. 

Two-thirds of the achievement gap for American children is due to the “summer learning loss”. Here’s how we fix that.

Researchers tracked academic achievement, social cognition, executive function, and creativity in a longitudinal study of kids across the socioeconomic spectrum. 

Following 14,000 people since the 1940s, these cohort studies offer insights into parenting, education, health, and the impact of poverty.

The Job Guarantee is a policy proposal that would have the state function as an employer of last resort.

Poor Americans, people in rural locations, and those with disabilities would benefit most.   

Canada puts its money where its mouth is and prepares for a ‘no strings attached’ basic income trial that it hopes will break the cycle of poverty. 

How does our perception of social status relate to health and success?

Has the oldest problem in the book become taboo again? C. Nicole Mason expresses concern over a nation-wide moral failure that is leaving the U.S.’s most vulnerable to struggle in silence.

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 poor because social mobility is institutionally suppressed.