Mike DeWine’s answer to childhood poverty is a classroom lecture: Leila Atassi

Ohio's new Success Sequence law teaches children that escaping poverty is a matter of making the right choices while ignoring ...
Newsweek

Poverty Is Killing Nearly 200,000 Americans a Year

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The land of the free is suffering from a "self-inflicted" injustice ...
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 — ...
America Magazine

Poverty should not make a good life impossible

More and more of society’s basic functions have come to depend on the accumulation of private wealth, while instilling fear that a good life is otherwise impossible. (iStock/HABesen) One way of ...
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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 ...
U.S. News & World Report

The Cycle of Poverty and Its Traps That Keep You Poor

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 ...
Forbes

Facing Poverty’s Reality, Not The Convenient Myths

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aisha Nyandoro is a leading voice on equitable economic policies. A recent AP-NORC poll reveals a pervasive misunderstanding about ...
Medical Xpress

Poverty is the fourth greatest cause of US deaths, analysis finds

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 ...
National Review

No, the Poverty Threshold Is Not $140,000 (Good Grief)

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The Conversation

Big companies profit from poverty but aren’t obliged to uphold human rights. International law must change – scholar

There is some disagreement among legal practitioners and scholars about whether corporations have duties under international law. Many argue that only states are bound by international law, and it is ...