The latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau detail the lack of any progress against poverty since 2000, write Mark Greenberg and Lisa Donner. The positions of American Progress, and our policy ...
Mark Greenberg, Director of CAP's Task Force on Poverty, testifies to Congress on why the method for measuring poverty should be updated. The following is an excerpt of the testimony of Mark Greenberg ...
Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond’s disquieting new book, “Poverty, by America,” succinctly makes the case that poverty persists in the world’s rich county not because we are spending less and ...
Since 2014, the fight against child poverty has seen uneven progress worldwide, with some regions making significant strides while others have stagnated or even regressed. Globally, the number of ...
Why isn’t everyone in dire poverty, hungry, diseased, illiterate, missing teeth, eking out a subsistence existence in the wilderness, and making do with Stone Age technology? After all, that’s how we ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Leer en español The kitchen table, round and glass, with wooden legs, sits in a sunlit corner of Alejandra Carrera and Clemente Flores’ apartment. It is one ...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) report for 2022 finds that midway through their course, the commitments made by world leaders in 2015 – to end extreme poverty, inequality and climate change ...
A homeless encampment by San Francisco City Hall. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) In 2016, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond created a sensation with his Pulitzer Prize–winning ...
The recent presidential election in Colombia highlighted a striking political paradox. New data from the country’s national ...
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