With President Obama stressing economic inequality in his State of the Union Address, a new poll seemed to support the idea that the nation’s distribution of wealth is fundamentally unfair. According ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The number of children living in poverty in America has increased just one month after the expanded child tax credits ended. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social ...

America's long-running war on poverty "is largely over and a success." I am a researcher who has studied poverty for nearly 20 years in Cleveland, a city with one of the country's highest rates of ...

It may seem simple, but the role employment plays in explaining poverty in America is frequently misunderstood, especially when it comes to understanding why people might be poor for many years. It is ...

I was, therefore, surprised recently to read in the New York Times — with all the Times’ authority — an opinion essay headlined “ Single Mothers Are Not the Problem.” In a country of more than 320 ...

Indian women past childbearing age are dying at a higher rate than those in other countries because of poverty and limited access to resources such as food and health care, according to a study from ...

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Fall 2009), pp. 555-576 (22 pages) We use panel data on Florida high school students to examine race, poverty, and gender disparities in ...

Anyone who has raised children knows that it's a messy, trial-and-error process, with an emphasis on "error." It's hard enough to do well with two parents, a ...

Chances are, most people you talk to would likely agree that it’s important to end poverty. But, if you were to ask all those people to explain poverty, chances are you would get a lot of different ...

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Germany’s fitful attempts to grow into its relative heft in European institutions remain tortuous. There is no country that could do more to contribute to European collective security than Germany, ...