An evidence-based policy movement is arming the fight with tools and programs that are more effective than...
Poverty
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...
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....
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...
Wealthy landowners enclosed (privatized) the commons for their own profits, impoverishing many villagers. By Jay Walljasper Medieval...
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...
From the charitable relief of the Poor Law to the grim conditions of the workhouse, examining attitudes...
Examining the social and economic lives of the Victorian working classes and the poor. By Liza Picard / 10.14.2009...
New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college...
Boston Almshouse Meeting the eligibility requirements of the Poor Laws was not easy in pre-1935 America. By...
Homeless children. Moscow, 1930s / Institute of Modern Russia How have societies solved this basic problem? Why have...
Herbert Hoover surrounded by admiring children in war-torn Poland, 1946 Why aren’t we reacting with the same...