Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America?

What Is the Cycle of Poverty and How to Break It The cycle ... Lori Brown, a professor of sociology and criminology at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, says that she would like to ...

Experiencing poverty during childhood can lead to lasting harmful effects ... education, developmental psychology, sociology, demography, political science, criminal justice, neuroscience, child ...

But I hadn't dealt with one of the most significant factors underlying my hoarding instincts: poverty mentality. Seventeen years later, I had to confront this issue to create a comfortable living ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

More questionable is that about 11.1 percent of Americans live in poverty despite this national wealth. However, the acceptance that poverty for some is an unfortunate consequence of free markets ...

Research suggests that direct, unrestricted financial support may reduce child abuse and help keep families together ...

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Stock market, GDP, household wealth and jobs are all up. Why are voters down on economy? Poverty data reveals ironic economic nostalgia.

A prominent figure in the field of sociology, he had a particular interest in political discourse, mass media’s role in social change, and social movements Retired Professor of Sociology William ...

Throughout his campaign, former president and now President-elect Donald Trump reiterated threats to send troops into Mexico ...

The Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said the Department for Communities' handling of the Child Poverty Strategy is a "catalogue of failures," where children and families are not at ...