The history of capitalism, as portrayed in academia and among much of the media, is a sad story. It’s one of smokestacks, sweatshops, child labor, robber barons, social stratification and general ...
The percentage of public schools where more than three-quarters of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch—a key indicator of poverty—has increased in the past decade, and children at ...
America's long-running war on poverty "is largely over and a success." I am a researcher who has studied poverty for nearly 20 years in Cleveland, a city with one of the country's highest rates of ...
The official poverty measure has a lot of problems, and we'll have to wait until November for the better alternative measure from the census. For one thing, the official measure totally ignores the ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Pew Research has a good report up this week on child poverty during the great ...
From CAP’s new strategy to halve poverty by 2010: I tend to think the repetition of these numbers is important, as one of the most pernicious myths is that poverty is entirely an African-American, and ...
A Census Bureau chart shows that child poverty dropped sharply in 2021 after the Child Tax Credit was expanded and made fully refundable, a key policy approach highlighted during the summit’s ...
From Lawrence McQuillian of the Independent Institute: The poverty rate in the United States fell by half from 1950 to the start of the “War on Poverty.” And it was on track to continue falling. But ...
Rachel Sheffield is research fellow in welfare and family policy in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research. In his speech today at Cleveland State ...
One mind-boggling chart shows how government stimulus cut poverty by nearly half during the pandemic
New projections from the Urban Institute find the poverty rate will drop to 7.7% in 2021. The New York Times reported that would be a decline of about 45% from 2018. Researchers credited stimulus ...
The Philippines has lagged behind its neighbors in Southeast Asia in reducing poverty even as its economic expansion mostly kept pace the past two decades, which may stall efforts to achieve an ...
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