17 Parts of Poverty the Wealthy Will Never Truly Understand

Did you know that nearly half of the world’s population survives on less than $6.85 a day? That mind-boggling statistic ...

Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line conveys a more accurate picture of inequality

Michael W. Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked up to US$140,000 for a family of four. Currently, a family of that size has ...
The RepublicOpinion

Column: Poverty still claims more than 820,000 Hoosiers

When it was first developed in 1963, the poverty threshold was set at the cost of a minimal diet defined by the U.S.
Opinion

Let's tell the truth about poverty in Portage County | Opinion

Portage County Community Action Council Executive Director John Kennedy debunks myths about poverty in Portage County and beyond.
Dawn

Psychology of poverty

“Poverty is an ethical concept, not a statistical one”. — John Wall, World Bank, 2006 IN nuclear-powered Pakistan nearly 40-50 per cent of the country’s 240 million people live below or around the ...
National Catholic Reporter

Sociologist: Ending US poverty is doable but requires 'each of us' to 'become poverty abolitionists'

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...

Social Security payments lift millions out of poverty

Social Security payments lift an estimated 23.5 million people above the poverty line, a new report has found.
The Stanford Daily

$170 billion needed to end poverty, Stanford researchers find

Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.
Newsweek

Poverty Is Killing Nearly 200,000 Americans a Year

The land of the free is suffering from a "self-inflicted" injustice when it comes to poverty, experts say, as the rich are getting richer while thousands living without sufficient means die every year ...
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Poverty is fueling Trumpism — and there’s a sinister reason why

Before he died on Sept. 4 at the age of 99, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton left us with stark warnings about President Donald Trump and the American right. One of the country’s leading experts on how ...
Forbes

Poverty Impedes Children’s Education Long Before They Enter The Classroom — Here’s How We Can Change That

Within the United States, education is commonly regarded as an equalizer to opportunity and upward mobility. In reality, there are countless impediments in the system that exclude low-income children ...
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The poverty pretenders (II)

Muhammadu Buhari’s 100-million pledge was made in a country that had already demonstrated its ability to spend trillions on poverty rhetoric while poverty deepened. Halfway through Buhari’s promise, ...