The U.S. has a robust food supply chain and a social safety net in place that could,...
Poverty
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...
Introduction In late July 1961, O Cruzeiro magazine—Brazil’s answer to the American magazine Life—sent photographer Henri Ballot...
Riis as a writer, photographer, lecturer, advocate, and ally for reform to address the poverty many ignored....
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...
From the charitable relief of the Poor Law to the grim conditions of the workhouse, examining attitudes...
The message in medieval manuscripts is clear: The rich are good, the poor are trouble. Gluttony—overindulging in...
Around 1 in 8 Americans was poor in 2017. That doesn’t compare well to other developed nations. On Sept. 12, the...
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...
African-American family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Georgia in 1907 / Library of Congress By Dr. Keri Leigh...