ANN ARBOR, MI -- Improving the narrative around poverty in the United States and promoting a better understanding of structural inequity is the focus of an upcoming University of Michigan virtual ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Emphasizing that race is not a biological construct, but rather a social construct, a speaker contended that the ...

Poverty in Baltimore (and elsewhere) is structural, the consequence of an exploitative economic system that has targeted blacks and other persons of color for centuries. It has abandoned the poor to ...

Last spring, Ciera Pritchett watched her life fall apart. As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Leveraging national surveys, big data, and machine learning, Cornell University researchers have developed a new approach to mapping poverty that could help policymakers and NGOs better ...

Joerg Rieger, a leading theological thinker in relation to economic injustice, is also a principal presenter at a forthcoming conference in Houston that seeks to galvanize a stronger and ...

The thing about being poor in America is that it is easy for people to demonize you. The message we send over and over again to those who are struggling is, “It’s your fault if you’re poor.” The water ...

While it's good the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics went to researchers who study poverty, their research falls far short of describing its structural causes, says development economist David Ruccio ...