Under Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, there are “fewer families living in poverty” than under her predecessor. The poverty rate under Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, has ranged from ...
You’ve probably heard of Matthew Desmond’s ideas, even if you haven’t heard his name. He’s an author, MacArthur Fellow, and a ...
The global fight against extreme poverty used to be a success story. In 1981, a staggering 41% of the world’s population ...
To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Before he died on ...
When most people hear the word poverty, they think of empty pockets, begging on the streets, or not being able to afford food. However, poverty is much deeper than just not having money. It can affect ...
Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...
The claim that a family needs six figures just to avoid poverty sounds like a provocation, but it is rooted in a detailed attempt to price out a very ordinary American life. A Wall Street strategist ...
More and more of society’s basic functions have come to depend on the accumulation of private wealth, while instilling fear that a good life is otherwise impossible. (iStock/HABesen) One way of ...
In many upstate cities like Syracuse, Binghamton, and Rochester, the number of children living in poverty is upwards of 40%.