Dominating the book is an image of institutional space, beige, concrete, and lightless: the warehouse, the hospital, the ...

The classic promise of the American dream is that no matter where you grew up, no matter how poor you were as a kid, you can ...

With about 100 students in the audience, Wilson-Hartgrove explained that while poverty is frequently framed as a "Black problem," the stark truth is that there are 40 million more impoverished white ...

A few weeks before his death in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke about the “other America” to a union group in New York. In his remarks, he condemned the structural nature of poverty ...

The silence of poverty is deafening. For the 15 million children living in poverty, playtime and early learning activities like reading, singing, arts & crafts and dress-up are not necessarily a way ...

With a child poverty rate of 35%, 1 in 3 kids are growing up impoverished ... The Impact of COVID-19 on Learning Loss in America No one could have predicted the barrier that COVID-19 would present to ...

In Latin America and the Caribbean some 200 million people live in poverty, with 82 million in extreme poverty, points out a report from the UN Economic Commission for the region, ECLAC.

He is the author of “Within Our Means,” a biweekly newsletter on ending poverty in America. The classic promise of the American dream is that no matter where you grew up, no matter how poor ...