What you should know about child poverty and its impact on children. Introduction Poverty means more than...
Poverty
Eligible people still wait months or even years after being approved for assisted housing. Introduction At a...
The monthly child poverty rate increased from 12.1% in December to 17% in January. The number of...
Spending on kids has huge benefits, not just for kids themselves, but for society. Introduction It was...
An evidence-based policy movement is arming the fight with tools and programs that are more effective than...
The state of poverty in fact covers a variety of situations, but always leads to exclusion, primarily...
Millions of Americans struggle to pay their bills each month, despite earning wages well above the federal...
How segregated U.S. cities are organized as a residential caste system. U.S. cities are deeply segregated, often...
The fact that nearly half the world’s population is still struggling to escape poverty while global temperatures...
It’s a crisis that’s testing families, communities, and the social safety net. By Christianna Silva Introduction With...
For many of the children who don’t get enough to eat, the consequences could last a lifetime....
How global poverty relates to hunger and how you can take action to save lives. Around the...
An economist explains what it would cost to give SNAP benefits to all Americans in households earning...
These efforts are growing due to the coronavirus pandemic. They involve partnerships with school districts, food banks...
Many studies conducted in recent years tie lower poverty rates for children to better health and higher...
Our society has not taxed itself to make sure that all kids have great schools. By Dr....
The U.S. has a robust food supply chain and a social safety net in place that could,...
Americans have found it harder to grapple with the issue of food insecurity as a wealthy nation....
The ways in which religion sustains the status quo for poor and politically subjugated groups. By Dr....
The problem is that homeless people cannot afford the housing that is available to people of sufficient...
Plato’s Nomoi and the Book of Deuteronomy dealt intensively with the fissures between rich and poor within...
Elites feared falling into poverty and tried to keep the evil eye away with laughable figures. By...
To embrace class as a social movement category is to re-engage King’s consciousness and do justice to...
Almost 39 million Americans are living in poverty, and 17% of children in the U.S. are impoverished....
Wealthy landowners enclosed (privatized) the commons for their own profits, impoverishing many villagers. By Jay Walljasper Medieval...
Montgomery, Alabama, seeks to make criminals of the less fortunate. By Bradley Bennett Jonathan sleeps under a...
By the end of the thirteenth century the social context for the abandonment of infants and children...
Two different perceptions of the sin of overeating in the Middle Ages. Gluttony—overindulging in food or drink—was...
Nearly half of young LGBT people who are left homeless after coming out are from religious backgrounds....
Nearly a third of homeless people die from treatable conditions, meaning hundreds of deaths could potentially have...