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.

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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poverty did not materialize because of blind forces, such gatherings suggested. It resulted from greed and from exploitation, a word that Desmond complained “has been scrubbed out of the poverty ...

I’m very suspicious of absolving theories of poverty both from the left and from the right, stories that let us off the hook. And I don’t say this to induce guilt—I say this to induce action.

Tonight, how to finally end poverty in America. A Pulitzer Prize winning sociologist shares his wake-up call. What he says everyone can and should be doing to lift up the over 38 million Americans ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2024 Poverty Guidelines rank the poverty threshold for a single person household at $15,060; a two-person household, $20,440; a three-person ...

The Vatican has released a new document calling poverty, war and the plight of migrants "threats to human dignity." But it also calls abortion, surrogacy and gender theory "grave threats" facing ...