The Upward Mobility Act is a proposed bill that would combine multiple federal anti-poverty programs into a single, flexible ...

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...

Some say that if a person opposes social programs, like I do, he or she is selfish and has no regard for the less fortunate. While I am certainly selfish at times, I care about others a lot. In fact, ...

Washington, D.C. — The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new attention to the harms caused by “asset limits,” or “asset tests,” which prevent people from receiving many life-sustaining public benefit ...

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 ...

Wonder Land: "Systemic racism" is a systemic forgetting of 55 years of urban policy failure. Image: Scott Heins/Getty Images Critics of the welfare state sometimes call it a “poverty trap,” and here’s ...

The paper examines the household asset dynamics in India as well as Indian rural States. The paper contributes to the empirical analysis of poverty trap by investigating the presence of one potential ...

There has never been a better argument for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) than the devastating global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. As widespread infectious disease outbreaks are increasing in ...