The nearly 100 undergraduate students enrolled in the Princeton University course "Sociology 207: Poverty in America" listened quietly as Trenton native Michael Nelson recited from memory a poem he ...

Shaefer is the Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor and Associate Dean at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Edin is the William Church Osbourne Professor of Sociology and ...

Why are poor people poor? For years, many scholars blamed it on a culture of poverty — the idea that behavior and attitudes played a key role. Then, the concept was blasted as blaming the victim, and ...

University of Arizona students who interviewed 117 low-income residents across Pima County found that 76% of them are ...

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 ...

News of progress at Russell Street Field, the de-fencing of 96 Campus Avenue, and the long-awaited new bell striker in Hathorn Hall. Historic Hathorn Hall is home to faculty offices in English, ...

Being poor is expensive. You don’t need to be told that, especially if you’re always living paycheck to paycheck and are struggling to get by; you’ve noticed. Still, when you’re just trying to get ...