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The opening pages of The Other America set out the problem: There was a “familiar America” of postwar prosperity, of televisions and radios and automobiles and suburban homes, and then there was a ...

In the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal responsibility. “The critical edge of 1963 was blunted in the legislation of 1964, as ...

For some children, a “culture of poverty” severely limits the opportunities they have to benefit from structured play and enrollment in out-of-school programs. This culture may include machismo, ...

For the richest country in history, poverty in America remains jarringly widespread. Taking government assistance into account, one in eight American adults was classified as poor on the eve of the ...

“Books about poverty tend to be books about the poor,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond writes in “Poverty, by America” (Crown). That’s true whether the motivation is to blame the poor for their ...

Over 11% of the U.S. population — about one in nine people — lived below the federal poverty line in 2021. But Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says neither that statistic, nor the federal ...

Your editorial “The Parable of the Child Tax Credit” (Nov. 29) says that Americans understand poverty is less about material deprivation and “more about idleness, addiction, mental illness and other ...

America is one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, yet it has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. One in nine Americans lives below the poverty line, and 38 million people can’t afford ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...