Period poverty is real in Maine. We’re done pretending otherwise. | Opinion

Women and girls throughout the state can't afford basic menstrual hygiene products. It's time we had that hard conversation.

Oklahoma can’t address poverty at home while ignoring how it’s created abroad

Oklahomans understand poverty. About 1 in 7 residents lives below the poverty line, according to data from the U.S. Census ...
Yahoo

Poverty is fueling Trumpism — and there’s a sinister reason why

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Before he died on ...
National Catholic Reporter

Sociologist: Ending US poverty is doable but requires 'each of us' to 'become poverty abolitionists'

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? Desmond — ...
Forbes

Facing Poverty’s Reality, Not The Convenient Myths

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aisha Nyandoro is a leading voice on equitable economic policies. A recent AP-NORC poll reveals a pervasive misunderstanding about ...

A new way to measure poverty shows the US falling behind Europe

The time needed to get $1 in international dollars is 63 minutes in the US. This is about twice the average in Germany, ...
America Magazine

Poverty should not make a good life impossible

More and more of society’s basic functions have come to depend on the accumulation of private wealth, while instilling fear that a good life is otherwise impossible. (iStock/HABesen) One way of ...
Times Union

Commentary: Childhood poverty is a public health emergency. We need to treat it that way.

New York is one of the wealthiest states in this country. And yet its child poverty rate — over 20% — is one of the highest in the country. As a pediatrician in Albany for the past 20 years, I have ...
The Conversation

Big companies profit from poverty but aren’t obliged to uphold human rights. International law must change – scholar

There is some disagreement among legal practitioners and scholars about whether corporations have duties under international law. Many argue that only states are bound by international law, and it is ...
St. Louis American

LSEM addresses plight of poverty in STL region

The “harsh realities” of poverty in St. Louis, according to a Legal Services of Eastern Missouri report, are visible during events including the annual Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis MLK Food ...
City Limits

Poverty Rose Slower than Thought—Is that Good News?

If you’ve been trying to follow the debate over the new measure of poverty released by the Census Bureau this morning, you’re probably completely confused by now. So far in the last few days we’ve ...