Poverty
Our coverage of poverty in America, which policies help reduce it, and why it’s so hard to achieve economic mobility.
The city adds to its high minimum wage with a law mandating more predictable schedules
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew calls a reported deal “fiscally irresponsible.”
Cost-sharing subsidies essentially cap how much Obamacare enrollees have to pay for co-payments, co-insurance, and other forms of cost-sharing.
A brief history of basic income, the simplest plan to end poverty.
More than one in three black Americans were in poverty for at least two months in 2012.
Absences could explain up to 25 percent of the achievement gap in math scores.
However you measure it, the US has a child poverty problem
The uninsured rate for residents of poor counties fell by 9 percentage points, from 26.4 percent in 2013 to 17.5 percent now.
Bike sharing is supposed to be a new kind of transit, but it has the demographics of a high-end leisure activity.
This map shows what the poverty rate would look like using the supplemental measure, which takes the cost of housing and more government assistance programs into account.
The political system is systematically skewed by the class bias in voting behavior.
The research shows that applying early decision or early action gives you a boost. Unfortunately, it’s just another way the playing field in college admissions is tilted.
Fixing that could require burning a lot more fossil fuels.
A historian of education argues that despite the widely held notion that American schools are failing, things have actually never been better.
We define poverty with income levels, but there’s an entire dimension that that misses
America needs a new admissions strategy to create a higher education system that fights inequality rather than perpetuates it.
One woman explains why it’s so hard to take the bootstrap route from the lower to middle class
Economic inequality isn’t just a problem at the most expensive and elite private colleges. It’s spread to public universities too.
But otherwise they’re pretty meaningless.
With new leadership for the first time in its history, TFA is considering significant policy changes. What does that mean for a national school reform movement built upon its ideals?
Americans have been arguing about teachers and comparing our schools to other countries’ for as long as the country has had schools.
“Healthy PA” is the latest compromise to expand Medicaid.
But we’ll have to talk about racism first.