EVERYONE INVOLVED IN "WELFARE REFORM" COULD usefully read "What Money Can't Buy" (Harvard University Press), a study by economist Susan Mayer of the University of Chicago. Its message is somber: as a ...

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 ...

These questions inspired Kanig to start the Trenton-based Latino arts and culture nonprofit, Casa Cultura, which recently ...

Mar. 22—Poverty is "not about intelligence, but it does impact the way people think," and educators need to be mindful of the socioeconomic status of their students, according to Ruby Payne, an ...

For some children, a “culture of poverty” severely limits the opportunities they have to benefit from structured play and enrollment in out-of-school programs. This culture may include machismo, ...

As if killing the Child Tax Credit, blocking voting rights, gutting key climate legislation, and refusing living wages wasn’t enough, West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is now promoting ...

Here are four facts about "Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People's Campaign," the new exhibition at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. At the height of the turbulent '60s, a massive movement to end ...

Your editorial “The Parable of the Child Tax Credit” (Nov. 29) says that Americans understand poverty is less about material deprivation and “more about idleness, addiction, mental illness and other ...

“Books about poverty tend to be books about the poor,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond writes in “Poverty, by America” (Crown). That’s true whether the motivation is to blame the poor for their ...

The opening pages of The Other America set out the problem: There was a “familiar America” of postwar prosperity, of televisions and radios and automobiles and suburban homes, and then there was a ...