People often assume that the poor are less competent than the wealthy. Some even suggest that the poor have flawed values or ways of thinking. But my colleagues and I have recently found that the poor ...

Struggling with poverty is hard enough on its own, but many of America's poor now face an array of costs that wealthier citizens often don't incur. Take the rise of for-profit probation companies, ...

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Fighting poverty with business has become very popular. Organizations from the environmental think tank World Resources Institute (WRI), to the World Bank, to the United Nations Development Programme ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. If you’re struggling at work—to get ahead, feel fulfilled or ...

The Census Bureau recently announced it wants advice on ways to develop more accurate measurements of poverty—a welcome and much-needed change. Year after year, the Census Bureau reports that more ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In a study of 19th century ideas of poverty, the German historian Beate Althammer observes a strange dichotomy. On the one hand, ...

Sharp differences along lines of race and politics shape American attitudes toward the poor and poverty, according to a new survey of public opinion, which finds empathy toward the poor and deep ...

Oregon once required counties to take care of their neediest residents. For decades, relief institutions known as “poor farms” operated throughout the state. They provided food, shelter, medical care ...

In Yorgos Lanthimos' new film Poor Things, Emma Stone stars as Bella Baxter, a curious Victorian creature with an unorthodox past. Though she appears as a full-grown adult, Bella is a child-woman, the ...