Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...

Southeast Ohio is a region known for a long history of poverty. The region continues to suffer from this issue, with many ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A new book looks to redefine how people see poverty. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, the co-author of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American ...

A People’s History of Poverty In America, by Stephen Pimpare, The New Press, $27.95. In publishing as in comedy, timing is everything—so the appearance of a new book detailing the historical and ...

AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility gathered to review the US Census Bureau’s 2022 poverty estimates. The event began with presentations on various elements of the newly released poverty ...

Oregon once required counties to take care of their unhoused residents. The relief institutions, known as “poor farms,” provided food, medical care and even burial services for those without a home.

President Trump’s nonstop record of false claims (12,000-plus labeled false or misleading as of an August count in the Washington Post) received a brief respite recently when he tweeted that poverty ...

EVERETT, Wash. — Help is arriving at a south Everett neighborhood with a history of poverty, neglect and the crime that often follows. Twice a month, Lahai Health will park a mobile clinic in a lot ...

Beatriz Michelena and her husband George Middleton Jr. founded the California Motion Picture Corp. (Cal-Pic) in 1911. At first it was to sell cars and promote local news, then to showcase California’s ...

Steven graduated from the University of Colorado with his PhD in History in 2011. He has been teaching full-time in Honors at the university since spring 2013. His research interests include labor and ...