What's your opinion about poverty in the US?

We live in a society, and indeed a world, where technology exists that should make poverty impossible. read more

In 2011 extreme poverty in the United States, meaning households living on less than $2 per day before government benefits, was double 1996 levels at 1.5 million households, including 2.8 million children. In 2012 the percentage of seniors living in poverty was 14% while 18% of children were. read more

RONALD REAGAN famously said, “We fought a war on poverty and poverty won.” With 46 million Americans — 15 percent of the population — now counted as poor, it’s tempting to think he may have been right. Look a little deeper and the temptation grows. The lowest percentage in poverty since we started counting was 11.1 percent in 1973. read more

Five decades since President Lyndon B. Johnson began his so-called War on Poverty, poor Americans continue to struggle. In"The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives," Sasha Abramsky, a freelance journalist and lecturer in the university writing program at the University of California–Davis, tells the story of America's poor today. read more