A timely, multidimensional view of poverty-related need
(April 6) – Despite the challenge of growing up in tough areas with few resources, thousands of inner city kids manage to excel academically. But even some students who seem to thrive early on run a significant risk of faltering on their quest for college degrees or the elite jobs they once envisioned. So what’s […]
(April 6) – He’s a Bangladeshi who’s been knighted by the Queen of England. A former accountant who left an executive position at Shell Oil to devote himself to the world’s poorest. And when it comes to eliminating poverty, he may be the most influential man you’ve never heard of. Meet Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder […]
(April 5) – In most cases, poverty is the main reason children and teens worldwide end up homeless or living on the streets, according to a new review of past research. About 40 percent of youths reported poverty as the main reason they were homeless, according to the report in JAMA Pediatrics. Family conflict and abuse were […]
(April 5) – The rising cost of housing in U.S. cities like San Francisco and New York is a well-known problem. Flying under the radar: an affordable housing crisis is growing in every state in the union. More than one in four renter families across the country now pay more than half of their income on […]
(April 4) – From the first federal social welfare program for Civil War widows to Social Security and the 1960s War on Poverty, government support for poor families in the United States has attempted to enforce a moral hierarchy based on marriage: Widows got pensions they were considered to have earned, for example, while single […]
(April 4) – As part of its laudable goal to end family, youth, and child homelessness by 2020, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued national instructions in its funding announcements, prioritizing investments in rapid re-housing, putting homeless people in apartments first, and then working to address their need for social services.
(April 1) – An explosion of data has already changed how we market products and politicians. Now a similar innovation is beginning to change how we combat poverty around the world. Consider an unlikely problem: finding the poor. Even in a world riddled with poverty, nearly every government, nonprofit and aid agency struggles with this […]
(April 1) – As many as 1 million Americans will stop receiving food stamps this year, the consequence of a controversial work mandate that took effect this week in 21 states as the economy improves. The revival of the mandate, which was hotly debated when adopted in the 1990s, is reigniting a discussion among policymakers […]
(April 1) – After years of economic desperation, American workers are finally regaining some of the ground they lost in the last decade’s recession and the pallid recovery that followed. Companies have been hiring in recent months at a pace not seen before in this century. Wages are rising faster than inflation. Joblessness is hovering […]
(Mar. 31) – The Great Recession may have ended in 2009, but despite the subsequent jobs rebound and declining unemployment rate, the number of people living below the federal poverty line in the United States remains stuck at recession-era record levels. The rapid growth of the nation’s poor population during the 2000s also coincided with […]