The United States is slowly trying to piece itself back together after being ravaged by an unrelenting pandemic (which still is not over, by the way, so people need to start acting like it), a racial ...

Last week, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (henceforth, NAS) released a new “consensus study” on poverty. The study was commissioned by the Census Bureau to assess and ...

Are you familiar with escape rooms? The only way you can escape is to solve a complicated problem. But what happens if you fail to escape the room on time? Having lost, you are then “imprisoned” in ...

Certain types of cancer are linked to areas with high poverty, according to a new study, and many of those types of cancer are more lethal than those found in wealthier areas. Published Tuesday in the ...

Over 11% of the U.S. population — about one in nine people — lived below the federal poverty line in 2021. But Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says neither that statistic, nor the federal ...

Since You Asked: How does the World Bank Group measure poverty?The World Bank Group’s mission is to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity. In order to monitor progress and understand the ...

“We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work.” ...

Peter Singer is well known to have argued for our responsibilities to address global poverty based on an analogy with saving a drowning child. Just as the passerby has a duty to save that child, we ...