Tag: poverty

Capitalists and their biggest fans have long argued that the system is an engine of wealth creation.

As vital food aid programs expire, millions of Americans face rising hunger challenges, reveals Hunger Free America's 2023 National Hunger Survey Report.

While Supplemental Poverty Measures (SPM) showed sharp increases, childhood poverty more than doubled in 2022.

"The unprecedented scale of the child migration crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean urgently requires a stronger humanitarian response as well as the expansion of safe and regular migration pathways for children and families," said one international advocate.

"House Republicans are moving to give themselves a raise while taking an ax to education, health, and other essential programs that help grow the economy by growing the middle class."

A national panel is recommending changes to a key poverty measurement. It might sound technical, but the stakes are high.

Our social safety net is flawed but vital. Let’s work together to protect it from political attacks.

"Unaffordable costs of energy and other necessities will push vulnerable populations into energy poverty and even extreme poverty.”

"We give every kid in our school a desk. There are lots of kids out there that can afford to buy a desk, but they get a desk because they go to school," said the Democratic author of the bill, pushing back against GOP means-testing canards.

Poverty in history’s richest nation.