P overty in America has, for decades, been framed as an issue of “them” rather than “us.” The poverty stricken are routinely thought to reside far outside of mainstream America. Central to ...

If American poverty persisted, I thought, it was because we had reduced our spending on the poor. But I was wrong. Image. A homeless mother with her children in St. Louis in 1987.

Here’s a look at poverty in America, by the numbers: A poverty epidemic. 37 million: Number of Americans who live below the official poverty line—12.6 percent of the total population.

One little-recognized reality of poverty in America is how closely it lurks beneath the surface of even a successful professional life. A bad career turn, a couple of financial missteps, and ...

In the years leading up to 2020, however, the poverty rate in America had gradually been on the decline. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent report, the official poverty rate had ...

Poverty in American Counties While poverty exists everywhere in America, it is highly concentrated in certain areas, particularly the South, Southwest, and Appalachian regions. 24/7 Wall St.

When it comes to tracking how poverty impacts families with children in COVID-era America, estimates for 2021 reveal something noteworthy.

Bruce Meyer of the University of Chicago and AEI and James Sullivan at Notre Dame have found that, properly measured, poverty in America was just under 3 percent, as of 2019, 7 as shown in the ...

Poverty vs. Democracy in America: 50 years after Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty, tens of millions of second-class Americans are still legally or effectively disenfranchised.

I want to end poverty in America – the way to do that is for the richest among us to take less from the government. But I think what we get in that movement, in that rebalancing, is a freer ...

This means Poverty, By America is not an immersive attempt to bear witness to suffering like Evicted. Instead, Desmond lays out public policies, laws, and tax breaks to show how the U.S. actually ...

POVERTY, BY AMERICA, by Matthew Desmond. Over the past decade or two, it has become fashionable to attribute major social ills to underlying “systemic” and “structural” causes.