Tag: poor

As we approach 1 million COVID-19 deaths, Americans in poorer counties have died at double the rate of wealthier counties.

The war in Ukraine is causing further disruption to the global food supply and making it harder for the world’s poorest households to afford adequate nutrition.

You can’t work your way out of poverty in low-wage jobs.

What this country might look like if its politics were so much less top-down and so much more bottom-up.

Trickle-down is trickling away.

A little history can help us with the answer.

For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for those who can't work from home, the pandemic is adding the prospect of a financial collapse to all their other concerns.

"This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. society."

In addition to boosting wages, it will take major policy changes, like making child care more universally available and affordable, to offset the skyrocketing costs of living for American workers.

It turns out we know far less, by contrast, about Americans who live amid great wealth.