It’s at least arguable that the United States uses prison, or jail, as a punishment more than just a little too much. However, this new report insisting that half of all families have seen a member ...

Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and a National Book Critics Circle award. His ...

Poverty sticks and the middle class stalls when the basic math of life stops working: paychecks lag behind prices, essentials like housing and childcare devour income, and policy choices quietly ...

Over 37.9 million Americans currently live below the poverty line. With more than 11 percent of the American population struggling to afford basic necessities like food, housing, and healthcare, it is ...

The poverty rate fell for the first time since 2006, according to data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. The news inspired hopeful headlines in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times, ...

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Republicans and Democrats both acknowledge the erosion of the middle class. They differ on solutions to the problem. Left out of the public discourse discussion are the poor who, both parties seem to ...