His new book, Poverty, by America, studies various factors that contribute to economic inequality in the U.S ... That's all it was. And that simple intervention cut child poverty almost in ...

With both extreme poverty and billionaire wealth on the rise, the pandemic’s effect on inequality may appear obvious. The reality is not as simple as you may think. Inequality is a notoriously ...

Many countries, including the U.S., proved unable to manufacture simple ... to reduce inequality in all its dimensions. If it fails to pass, we can expect an enduring increase in poverty.

As I sit down to write this piece, I am reminded of the stark reality that faces millions of people around the world. The simple act of eating, a fundamental human need, has become a privilege ...

The U.S. devotes far fewer of its resources to preventing poverty than most other industrialized countries. The result is that we have the highest rates of poverty and inequality among the group ...

“Law and order” might sound simple, a 1968 TIME cover ... But Elizabeth Hinton, a historian of U.S. inequality and author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass ...

Our deceptively simple mathematical models ... provides deep insight into the forces acting to increase poverty and inequality today. In 1986 social scientist John Angle first described the ...

Tipped workers overall are twice as likely to live in poverty as the general ... are serious about reducing racial inequality, they must push for simple, bold measures, such as doubling the ...

The Effects of Taxes and Transfers on Inequality and Poverty in Pakis­tan says the GST has the largest ne­­g­ative impact on the poverty headco­unt; the Benazir Income Support Programme has ...