Cultural attitudes toward violence—or, in the case of many Asians, toward nonviolence—help explain why poverty alone doesn’t ...

Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and a National Book Critics Circle award. His ...

Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched his own financial advisory firm in 2018. Thomas' experience gives him expertise in a ...

A panhandler holds out a cup to ask for money from drivers on at the corner of Interstate 30 and North Haskell Avenue in Dallas. Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer Why are people poor? Conservatives ...

Bishop William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, says it’s “grotesque and immoral” that poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, higher than homicide and ...

The rate of child poverty was 16.2% in 2018, slightly down from 2017, according to data released today by the Census Bureau. But experts have expressed concern that a new immigration rule will cause ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Eviction for lack of ability to pay rent is a symptom of pernicious ...

Oren Cass is one of the leading conservative domestic-policy wonks. He previously served as policy director for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns, but now his former boss has gone soft on the poor, ...