Matthew Desmond wants all of us to become “poverty abolitionists.” It’s a brilliant term because of the associations it carries throughout Desmond’s lively “Poverty, By America”: There’s the ...

The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – nearly 40 million – live in poverty. It's... The Roots of Poverty in America The United States is one ...

Princeton University sociologist Matthew Desmond explores why poverty persists in America — and how to end it — in his new book, "Poverty, By America." Why does poverty persist in America, the richest ...

The real cost of living in America is far higher than the federal poverty line suggests. Here’s why experts argue the true ...

Why does the richest nation in the world still have so many people living in poverty? One in every nine people in America is officially poor, and one in eight children – why do we tolerate this much ...

The classic promise of the American dream is that no matter where you grew up, no matter how poor you were as a kid, you can still have a path to financial stability in the United States as long as ...

Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond’s disquieting new book, “Poverty, by America,” succinctly makes the case that poverty persists in the world’s rich county not because we are spending less and ...

Though the United States is the richest country in the world, it has a higher rate of poverty than any other advanced democracy. Matthew Desmond, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, examines this dire ...

For the richest country in history, poverty in America remains jarringly widespread. Taking government assistance into account, one in eight American adults was classified as poor on the eve of the ...

A disturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40 percent of the population is obese (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a ...

A popular blogger says the real poverty line for a family of four is around $140,000. There has been pushback.