The SPLC campaign intends to reshape narratives about poverty by exposing misinformation and helping communities root out ...

Tennessee has made progress in reducing child poverty over the past decade, but nearly one in five children in the state is ...

State media, embracing the gaming phrase “kill line,” is asserting China’s political superiority over the United States, ...

For years, state leaders have treated tax cuts as a shortcut to prosperity — but this policy isn’t working and it's leaving ...

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 — ...

A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

Two new studies report worse colorectal cancer survival among patients with lower socioeconomic status, adding weight to a ...

The claim that a family needs six figures just to avoid poverty sounds like a provocation, but it is rooted in a detailed attempt to price out a very ordinary American life. A Wall Street strategist ...

More and more of society’s basic functions have come to depend on the accumulation of private wealth, while instilling fear that a good life is otherwise impossible. (iStock/HABesen) One way of ...

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Bonita Meyersfeld has received funding from the National Research Foundation as part of her NRF rating. There is some disagreement among legal practitioners and scholars about whether corporations ...

What is the state of poverty in Nigeria? Poverty in Nigeria comes in various forms: a lack of income and productive resources ...