Public schools in America are becoming testing grounds for a tenuous theory: that poverty can be avoided by making three choices in the right order. Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill this month ...

Childhood poverty numbers have doubled. There are now 9 million poor kids and economic problems, our failing education system and the fatherhood crisis all contribute.

The idea is that kids everywhere should have the same opportunities to learn and graduate as, say, students in high-poverty schools in the Delta. Thank God for Mississippi.

The insistence on personal agency is even more explicit in Desmond’s new book. “Poverty, by America” is a compact jeremiad on the persistence of extreme want in a nation of extraordinary ...

The New York Times recently published an article by Matthew Desmond, Why Poverty Persists in America, adapted from his new book, Poverty, by America. I spent a decade as a lawyer for poor people ...

Margaret Talbot writes about “Poverty, by America,” a new book by Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted.” ...

The child poverty rate has hit a five-year high in America as families continue to deal with high prices for groceries and housing.. That rate surged from 12.4 percent in 2022 to 13.7 percent in ...

Instead, we need to embrace the idea that poverty affects us all. When you think about poverty in this country, don’t just think 8% — that’s not very many people.

Nonprofit fights homelessness by building support networks 02:58. Millions of Americans are living in communities mired in "deep disadvantage," mostly rural locations stuck in generational poverty ...

The controversial anti-poverty solution coming to public schools. The “success sequence” has many critics, but lawmakers and parents don’t seem to care.