Poverty is a choice Oklahoma has made over the years | Opinion

For years, state leaders have treated tax cuts as a shortcut to prosperity — but this policy isn’t working and it's leaving ...
The American SpectatorOpinion

Poverty Reduction Programs Do Not Reduce Poverty

Over the last 50 years, the proportion of Americans living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged. In 2023, 11 percent ...
National Catholic Reporter

Sociologist: Ending US poverty is doable but requires 'each of us' to 'become poverty abolitionists'

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...
Forbes

Poverty Impedes Children’s Education Long Before They Enter The Classroom — Here’s How We Can Change That

Within the United States, education is commonly regarded as an equalizer to opportunity and upward mobility. In reality, there are countless impediments in the system that exclude low-income children ...
Newsweek

Poverty Is Killing Nearly 200,000 Americans a Year

The land of the free is suffering from a "self-inflicted" injustice when it comes to poverty, experts say, as the rich are getting richer while thousands living without sufficient means die every year ...
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Poverty is fueling Trumpism — and there’s a sinister reason why

Before he died on Sept. 4 at the age of 99, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton left us with stark warnings about President Donald Trump and the American right. One of the country’s leading experts on how ...
The Nation

“Culture of Poverty” Is a Made-Up Concept

Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) heads to a vote in the Senate at the US Capitol. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of ...

Could the Poverty Line Really Be $140,000 a Year? Here’s What the Data Shows

One analysis suggests that modern budgets push the effective poverty line far above official levels, revealing why many six-figure earners still feel financially strained.
VTDigger

Government assistance lifts Vermonters out of poverty, but the work is far from done

Get Vermont news sent to your inbox. Daily Digger is everything you need to know to start your day, delivered Monday-Saturday morning. People prepare free hot and cold meals for distribution by the ...
U.S. News & World Report

The Cycle of Poverty and Its Traps That Keep You Poor

Being poor is expensive. You don’t need to be told that, especially if you’re always living paycheck to paycheck and are struggling to get by; you’ve noticed. Still, when you’re just trying to get ...
Naija NewsOpinion

Politicians Scrambling For Positions, While 62% Of Nigerians Live In Poverty – Peter Obi

Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has stated that more than half of the population in Nigeria live in poverty while ...
The Economist

American poverty is moving from the cities to the suburbs

FOR MANY, the stereotypical image of American poverty still resembles the infamous Cabrini-Green Homes, a housing estate completed in 1962 near the heart of Chicago. It became overrun by gangs, drugs ...