America is an obscenely rich nation. We have supermarkets with 50 different brands of potato chips and mega-mansions sprouting like buffalo grass across the prairie and TVs the size of barns. With all ...

This is a story about two very different Massachusettses. One of them is well-educated, affluent, and largely suburban and white, while the other is rural, poor and often Black or brown. Those stark ...

Nobel Laureate and economist Prof Abhijit Banerjee on Monday said that the solution to a complex problem like poverty comes from ground-level experiments and micro-level policy reforms. Delivering a ...

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

While the unemployment rate continues to fall, the number of people in the region living in poverty remains steady, according to recent studies. Ohio’s unemployment rate is 4.6 percent and Butler ...

America excels at innovation. We’ve developed solutions, both intricate and simple, for a range of complex problems. Though we are leaders in technology, medicine, and entrepreneurship, we’ve ...

Historically, the child welfare system has prioritized disruptive and stressful interventions as the best solution for families in crisis. Turning a ship as massive as our current system won’t happen ...

California officials representing some of the wealthiest cities in the world traveled to one of the poorest villages in Africa this week to study universal basic income, a poverty solution they hope ...

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield plans to reshuffle city departments focused on health and human services and has tapped Luke Shaefer, a well-known Michigan poverty and social policy scholar, to take the ...

Ever since Ronald Reagan gave his “A Time for Choosing” speech in 1964, conservative politicians have wandered further and further away from engaging the issue of poverty. However, Reagan’s “do a ...

The University of Michigan research initiative Poverty Solutions released an updated version of their Michigan Poverty and Well-being Map at the end of March. The map uses several measures of poverty ...