The Gazette

There are different types of poverty — and all of them need to be addressed with revamped public infrastructure systems

The United States is slowly trying to piece itself back together after being ravaged by an unrelenting pandemic (which still is not over, by the way, so people need to start acting like it), a racial ...
Entrepreneur

Generational Poverty: How to Break the Cycle of Poverty

Are you familiar with escape rooms? The only way you can escape is to solve a complicated problem. But what happens if you fail to escape the room on time? Having lost, you are then “imprisoned” in ...
World Bank

Since You Asked: How does the WBG measure poverty?

Since You Asked: How does the World Bank Group measure poverty?The World Bank Group’s mission is to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity. In order to monitor progress and understand the ...
NPR

Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor

Over 11% of the U.S. population — about one in nine people — lived below the federal poverty line in 2021. But Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says neither that statistic, nor the federal ...
The Atlantic

The Myth of the Poverty Trap

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...