Part I -- Deep PovertyIn the assessment of poverty in the United States there is a category known as "deep poverty." The definition of deep…
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On a continent that is home to some of the world's richest people, most profitable businesses, and most valuable assets—including 342 billionaires—more than 120 million…
The World Bank and other global institutions use a very specific measure to record global poverty rates. They gather data designed to record the number…
The United States (US) government often cites $18 trillion as the amount of money that they owe, but their actual debts are higher. Much higher.…
We were told we needed to bail out Wall Street in order to save Main Street. Well the results are in… Wall Street has never…
Discriminatory housing, zoning, and other policy choices are driving the dramatic rise of racialized poverty and segregation across the United States, with the number of…
Income inequality is growing in the United States. The poor are getting poorer, and the rich, richer. But that's only part of the story: A new study shows that three out of…
There are roughly three million more U.S. children living in poverty today than during the outbreak of the Great Recession in 2008, and the so-called…
Global poverty has halved over the last decade, but a staggering 71% of the world’s population remains low-income or poor, living off $10 or less…
How we have landed ourselves with a global food system that generates hunger alongside of obesity, and what can we do about it? The universal…