Poverty in America Is Mainstream
Contrary to popular belief, the percentage of the population that directly encounters poverty is exceedingly high.
View ArticleThe Insanity of Our Food Policy
How America’s agricultural programs increase inequality at home and abroad.
View ArticleWhat Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?
A study of what happened with a Native American tribe shows a big effect on children.
View ArticleConquering Food Deserts With Green Carts
Programs to get fresh produce carts to areas with no access to healthy food work best when government and determined entrepreneurs team up.
View ArticleThe Microinsurance Revolution
Insurance is often out of reach for those in need. But in India, Africa and elsewhere, small, inexpensive policies are protecting millions.
View ArticleWhat a Little Land Can Do
By partnering with governments to peacefully redistribute small plots of land, the nonprofit group Landesa is helping to bring food, income, stability and dignity to India's poorest.
View ArticleAt Year’s End, News of a Global Health Success
The stunning drop in global child mortality is proof that poor countries are not doomed to eternal misery. Here's how it happened.
View ArticleThe Hidden Prosperity of the Poor
Is life on the bottom and in the middle better than it seems?
View ArticleIn the South and West, a Tax on Being Poor
Struggling Americans are worse off in regions with regressive systems for raising money.
View ArticleWho Is Poor?
Three ways of defining poverty suggest three different approaches to relief.
View ArticleThe Benefits of Mixing Rich and Poor
Head Start succeeds when all children are enrolled.
View ArticleWhen Poverty Makes You Sick, a Lawyer Can Be the Cure
Legal and medical professionals are joining forces to treat the social and environmental factors that make poor people sick.
View Article‘Invisible’ Credit? (Read This Now!)
Millions of financially responsible consumers don't have credit scores and can't get loans. Now there are ways to make them 'visible' to lenders.
View ArticleA Town Where a School Bus Is More Than a Bus
Bus drivers, when trained to be welcoming and understanding, can help children begin their school day more ready to learn.
View ArticleUpward Mobility for the World’s Destitute
Lack of skills and assets traps the ultrapoor in poverty for generations. Now organizations offer them a jump-start.
View ArticleIs Humanity Getting Better?
The world now is a thoroughly awful place, compared with what it should be. But not compared with what it was.
View ArticleIdeas Help No One on a Shelf. Take Them to the World.
Distributing, promoting and lending continuing support to good ideas for fixing the world's woes is as critical a task as thinking them up in the first place.
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