Two newly released books tell the same story of poverty: one, a novel. The other, a meticulously researched treatise on factors that create poverty and the steps that could be — but are not — taken to ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: ...

America is one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, yet it has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. One in nine Americans lives below the poverty line, and 38 million people can’t afford ...

For generations, public and private efforts have sought to eradicate poverty in America. Government spending on anti-poverty measures has gone up, and the number of charitable agencies dedicated to ...

The former Treasury secretary, whose new book is “The Yellow Pad,” says that Ken Auletta’s “The Underclass” convinced him that “trying to break the cycle of poverty through policy and through private ...

A WORLD I NEVER MADE—James T. Farrell—Vanguard ($2.50). In the first four novels of James Thomas Farrell, the poverty-oppressed O’Neill family emerges as part of the background of Chicago’s South Side ...

As election-year ads and social media campaigns focus on politicians’ personalities, Rev. William J. Barber II and other advocates for the poor want voters to look instead at policies they say divide ...

Travel logs give their readers the desire to travel, or they give those who do not want to travel a vicarious experience that will enrich them, helping them escape from their isolated, boring life.

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 ...

Why is there so much poverty in the richest nation in the world? That’s the question acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond sets out to answer with Poverty, by America. The topic is a familiar one for ...