“My grandfather’s death, six months into the pandemic, is more than a tragedy,” Sarah Jones wrote at New York magazine, where she is a columnist, in late 2020. “His fate is as political as it is ...

Reverend Dr. William Barber II speaks to marchers during the Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly on June 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. Credit - Jemal Countess/Getty Images But the reality of ...

Matthew Desmond’s experiences growing up in poverty prompted him to take a stand as a poverty abolitionist. “Ending poverty is gonna require new policies and new political movements, but it also will ...

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We learned Tuesday that a record number of Americans are living in poverty, and that the poverty rate--15.1 percent--rose for the fourth straight year. But those raw numbers leave out some key details ...

In America, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened significantly, with states exhibiting stark disparities in wealth distribution as highlighted in recent analyses. For instance, ...

Now and then, you stumble upon a metric so obviously broken that it forces you to re-evaluate everything you thought you knew about how America works. The latest in a line of such relics is the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- "Let me tell you about abandoned people," whispered J.R., his voice rising above the sighs and soft snores of sleepers curled on the church pews around him. "Those people who were ...

BOB GARFIELD: This is On the Media. I’m Bob Garfield. BROOKE GLADSTONE: And I’m Brooke Gladstone. Now starts the final lap in our poverty tour, which begins as we did, with the Virgil of our ...

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