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Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the ...
The anti-poverty group Oxfam International’s latest report on global inequality is calling for caps on CEO pay, better ...
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Poverty rates have also plunged during that time, dropping from 13.3% to around 3.5% after adjusting for inflation. But the ...
On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in ...
Americans deserve better: They deserve universal health care. The U.S. must move toward a Medicare for All system that not ...
These studies have yielded important insights, but they overlook one major reason why poverty in the U.S. is so much stickier than in peer countries: Americans born into poverty receive far less ...