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...
During the Gilded Age, the economic disparities between the workers and big business owners grew exponentially. Introduction...
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...
Farmers markets aren’t just for yuppies – they are increasingly serving customers at all social and economic...
The latest labor report is great, but it’s small comfort for the many workers with a job...
How one photographer saw the promise of public housing in L.A.’s Aliso Village. When Aliso Village opened...
“What we are doing to the unemployed is inexcusably cruel.” Unless Congress and the Biden administration act quickly,...
These efforts are growing due to the coronavirus pandemic. They involve partnerships with school districts, food banks...
Abrahamic views of poverty as a curse and poverty as a blessing – and their interrelated history...
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...
Thaddeus Stevens was a fearsome reformer, who never backed down from a fight. In 1813, a young...
Wealthy landowners enclosed (privatized) the commons for their own profits, impoverishing many villagers. By Jay Walljasper Medieval...
The greatest gift one can give is food to a starving person. The Santa Claus we know...
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....
Social class was prevalent and largely property-based in the colonies. The Colonial Elite Overview In New England...
An assignment for Life magazine about poverty in Brazil introduces photographer Gordon Parks to Flávio da Silva...
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...