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 ...

The survey— conducted by Hart Research Associates—revealed stark and sometimes unexpected results, and raised anew questions about poverty and inequality in one of the wealthiest countries in the ...

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 ...

Financial Inclusion in America Nearly one-fourth of U.S. adults can't pay their monthly bills, and have little or no access to a bank. Many more have no retirement savings.

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 ...

The expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) in President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, projected to decrease child poverty by 40%, will have an outsized effect on rural areas, where poverty rates are ...

Thus, as a result of the prolonged health and social crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, the extreme poverty rate in Latin America has risen from 13.1% of the population in 2020 to 13.8% ...

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 ...