Poverty
Our coverage of poverty in America, which policies help reduce it, and why it’s so hard to achieve economic mobility.
Clinton hinted at how she’d handle the unfinished business of the Obama administration.
“We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.”
We should be paying attention to Baltimore’s kids “all the time,” the president said.
If the tactic works, the White House may have found a model to use again and again to overcome one of the most significant remaining hurdles to Obamacare’s goal of universal health-care coverage.
The $4-a-day SNAP challenge gets the government’s rationale behind the program totally wrong. It also doesn’t capture what living on food stamps is really like.
Until last year, a major federal program encouraged police to target these neighborhoods.
Politicians should stop pushing Americans to take terrible jobs.
You might hear this in conversations about the South Carolina police officer charged with murdering Walter Scott. It’s ridiculous.
The system is a stressful disaster for nearly everyone. It’s time to look for a better way.
The less you make, the more likely you are to sleep less than six hours a night.
Marco Rubio and Mike Lee proposed a seemingly technical change that could be the start of something much, much bigger.
Why the next phase of the food movement should be workers’ rights.
Over the years, a larger and larger share of the poor are well educated.
It boosts defense spending and includes massive cuts to programs for the poor.
A sociologist explains that people weren’t scared to echo the Moynihan Report’s approach — they just didn’t agree with it.
Spending per student has more than doubled since the 1970s. But the news isn’t all bad.
Here’s how the House’s, Senate’s, and president’s budgets stack up.
A new report explains the jarring racial/ethnic poverty gap.
Toggle back and forth between prewar Syria and today to see just how bad it’s gotten.
It was in Utah, Kansas, and Montana. Here’s why.
Health economists say that adding a special enrollment period for pregnant women does involve trade-offs.
Two researchers try to answer the question: why are poor women five times more likely to have an unintended birth than those who earn more?
Alongside the wealth gap, there’s a growing empathy gap, and it could turn charitable donations away from the people who need them most
Taller buildings, and lower parking requirements.
Here’s how human traffickers target legal immigrants — and how they force and coerce them to stay
Finland has highly trained teachers, low child poverty, and an easier language to spell. (Really.)
Today, white families have around 12 times the wealth of African-American families and 10 times the wealth of Hispanic families
Turns out, the richest Americans spend way more on video games and rugs than the poorest
“The trajectory of this planet overall is one toward less violence, more tolerance, less strife, less poverty.”
Strangers have given over $200,000 in just two days.
Governors like Indiana’s Mike Pence have incredible leverage with the White House right now. And they’re not wasting it.
The education law is years overdue for a renewal and has failed to meet its ambitious goals. Here’s how a bipartisan achievement became a law almost no one likes — and what might happen next.
The higher education parts of the president’s plan are redistributive — but it’s hard to get around the fact that college tax credits tend to benefit wealthier Americans anyway.
A few things about the game make way more sense than they used to.
The White House is proposing that Congress pass a law allowing workers to accrue 7 days of paid sick leave.
New issues deserve genuine new ideas. We’re not getting them.
In 1800, about 80 percent of the world lived on less than $1.25 a day. By 2000, less than 20 percent did.
Why we shouldn’t be so quick to shame Fort Lauderdale about its homelessness policy
The Earned Income Tax Credit is in trouble, and Ryan won’t stand up to defend it.