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Princeton University sociologist Matthew Desmond explores why poverty persists in America — and how to end it — in his new book, "Poverty, By America." Why does poverty persist in America, the richest ...

Matthew Desmond wants all of us to become “poverty abolitionists.” It’s a brilliant term because of the associations it carries throughout Desmond’s lively “Poverty, By America”: There’s the ...

Why does the richest nation in the world still have so many people living in poverty? One in every nine people in America is officially poor, and one in eight children – why do we tolerate this much ...

The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – nearly 40 million – live in poverty. It's... The Roots of Poverty in America The United States is one ...

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 still have a path to financial stability in the United States as long as ...

Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond’s disquieting new book, “Poverty, by America,” succinctly makes the case that poverty persists in the world’s rich county not because we are spending less and ...

The U.S. child poverty rate more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. This was a policy choice. The U.S. Census Bureau found that child poverty rapidly dropped between 2020 and 2021 because of the American ...

Though the United States is the richest country in the world, it has a higher rate of poverty than any other advanced democracy. Matthew Desmond, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, examines this dire ...

For the richest country in history, poverty in America remains jarringly widespread. Taking government assistance into account, one in eight American adults was classified as poor on the eve of the ...

Many Americans are struggling, but make too much money to qualify for social assistance. That's because the US poverty line is outdated, leaving behind workers who could benefit from help. Experts ...

The persistence of American poverty. “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice. Early in my college teaching career, upon sharing an incidental detail of my ...