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 ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore presented legislation he's championing to address child poverty to state lawmakers on Wednesday, laying out a locally focused plan to attack the root causes of concentrated ...

Maui Economic Opportunity has been gathering community’s input on the “causes that could lead to poverty” in Maui County and encourages more submissions before the survey’s deadline June 25. So far ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. This Poverty Awareness Month reminds us that collective ...

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 ...

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If a significant number of people rely on minimum-wage jobs, Connecticut has an unhealthy economy or an unskilled workforce.

More surprising is a cause that Karelis omits: The propensity of the poor to produce illegitimate children. Karelis acknowledges that “having children early and out of wedlock is … doubtless a big ...

WELL, A NEW PLAN TO HELP PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY. THE CITY OF OMAHA IS LOOKING TO SIGN A DEAL WITH EXPERTS AT UNO. THIS WEEK, KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S ALEX MCLOON JOINS US LIVE WITH HOW IT WORKS AND THE ...

The level of poverty among citizens is derived from personal income distribution, which many of us think is based on ethnicity. [Courtesy] Universities in India offer a course on the Indian economy.