Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and a National Book Critics Circle award. His ...
Eviction for lack of ability to pay rent is a symptom of pernicious poverty; the best way to fix eviction is to help people pay their rent. Poverty causes eviction. It’s pretty simple. When people are ...
Maybe this is nitpicking. Sometimes you see a nit that just begs to be picked. Yesterday on the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News, State Senator Royce West was talking some kind of stuff about who ...
Bishop William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, says it’s “grotesque and immoral” that poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, higher than homicide and ...
Your cover story (August 21) on venture philanthropy (“A Revolution Was Ventured, but What Did It Gain?”) covered many of the issues that have faced this field. It is sad and disappointing that no new ...
Poverty has long been linked to shorter lives. But just how many deaths in the United States are associated with poverty? The number has been elusive—until now. UC Riverside Research Letter published ...
Poverty is a policy choice – not a personal failure. The author of “Hillbilly Elegy” says otherwise. This is not a commentary on the candidacy of author J.D. Vance, but on that flawed book and the ...
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