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 ...

Nonprofit organizations and faith communities creating pathways out of poverty for Marion County residents are invited ...

Did you know that nearly half of the world’s population survives on less than $6.85 a day? That mind-boggling statistic ...

Your cover story (August 21) on venture philanthropy (“A Revolution Was Ventured, but What Did It Gain?”) covered many of the issues that have faced this field. It is sad and disappointing that no new ...

Poverty makes people up to three times more likely to suffer from mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety compared to the wealthy, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday.

Eviction for lack of ability to pay rent is a symptom of pernicious poverty; the best way to fix eviction is to help people pay their rent. Poverty causes eviction. It’s pretty simple. When people are ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A conversation with Tomeka Hart Wigginton, president and ...

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 ...

Poverty is a policy choice – not a personal failure. The author of “Hillbilly Elegy” says otherwise. This is not a commentary on the candidacy of author J.D. Vance, but on that flawed book and the ...