For generations, public and private efforts have sought to eradicate poverty in America. Government spending on anti-poverty measures has gone up, and the number of charitable agencies dedicated to ...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: ...
Mama can’t find a steady job. So Zettie goes to bed every night in a cold, cramped car and wakes up every morning to the peal of police sirens. Daddy forged a check, got caught, and thrown in jail. So ...
Rural Macon County, Ala., in the heart of one of the United States' most disadvantaged areas. Geographic inequality is the subject of a sweeping new book, "The Injustice of Place." (Julie Bennett/FRE) ...
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A WORLD I NEVER MADE—James T. Farrell—Vanguard ($2.50). In the first four novels of James Thomas Farrell, the poverty-oppressed O’Neill family emerges as part of the background of Chicago’s South Side ...
As election-year ads and social media campaigns focus on politicians’ personalities, Rev. William J. Barber II and other advocates for the poor want voters to look instead at policies they say divide ...
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The book’s original sin is its confused understanding of poverty’s causes. Opting for tropes over scientific research, Desmond’s explanations range from irrelevant to backward. While the book reads ...
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