Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and a National Book Critics Circle award. His ...

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Poverty is a policy choice – not a personal failure. The author of “Hillbilly Elegy” says otherwise. This is not a commentary on the candidacy of author J.D. Vance, but on that flawed book and the ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore presented legislation he's championing to address child poverty to state lawmakers on Wednesday, laying out a locally focused plan to attack the root causes of concentrated ...

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Bishop William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, says it’s “grotesque and immoral” that poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, higher than homicide and ...

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UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Olivier De Schutter cited poverty on Friday as the “root cause” of violence and instability in Ecuador. De Schutter urged Ecuador’s leaders to ...