Matt Bruenig raises some issues about poverty that I think are worth discussing. He compares two popular theories of poverty: individual and structural. Contrasting the two, Matt writes: The ...

The reason is because supply-side differences are more complimentary to poor people, and liberals are biased towards theories of poverty that are complimentary to those in poverty.

Critical race theory has emerged as one of the most influential—and controversial—academic theories in contemporary political discourse. The discipline’s key terms, such as “systemic ...

And I’ve become very wary of absolving theories of poverty, and some structural theories of it are very absolving – like, if only Congress would get its act together; ...

Religion is inseparable from poverty and that is a demonstrable fact. The dire emotional conditions that excessive poverty causes its subjects ensure that the poor are always vulnerable to ideologies ...

The results add a layer of complexity to economic theories of poverty, Shah said. It’s not that people living in poverty don’t save or tend to ignore the future; they just see things differently.

The Persistence of PovertyWhy the Economics of the Well-off Can't Help the Poorby Charles Karelis Yale, 208 pp., $30 Charles Karelis is not a philosopher-king, but he can fairly be described as a ...

A study in the journal Science offers this insight: No matter who you are, having severely limited funds alters the way you make decisions about using them.