Cultural attitudes toward violence—or, in the case of many Asians, toward nonviolence—help explain why poverty alone doesn’t ...

Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and a National Book Critics Circle award. His ...

A panhandler holds out a cup to ask for money from drivers on at the corner of Interstate 30 and North Haskell Avenue in Dallas. Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer Why are people poor? Conservatives ...

Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched his own financial advisory firm in 2018. Thomas' experience gives him expertise in a ...

Eviction for lack of ability to pay rent is a symptom of pernicious poverty; the best way to fix eviction is to help people pay their rent. Poverty causes eviction. It’s pretty simple. When people are ...

The rate of child poverty was 16.2% in 2018, slightly down from 2017, according to data released today by the Census Bureau. But experts have expressed concern that a new immigration rule will cause ...

Bishop William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, says it’s “grotesque and immoral” that poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, higher than homicide and ...