Tag: poverty

“The economy remains stable, everyone benefits, and no one is left behind.”

As famine descends on a huge swath of the globe, the White House is rolling back aid, ramping up conflict, and risking more climate chaos.

This is not an unattainable utopian vision. It is the realistic picture of a world in which humanity responds creatively and pragmatically to the changes that technology presents us with.

If we want to create a vibrant middle class, we have to abandon slogans and simplistic solutions and understand the bigger picture.

Poverty, malnutrition, and hunger are a result of politics, not scarcity.

Keeping successful programs for people in poverty is the only way to secure their survival during the Trump era.

It is time to design an economic system that allows for the required sharing of food, water, land and other natural resources, as well as knowledge and skills.

The illusion that people are to blame for their own poverty goes back centuries in our culture.

Part of the daily reality of poverty in America, evictions—along with mass incarceration—are the mechanisms used to destroy communities and profit from the misery of the poor.

It seems wrong in a society as wealthy as ours that a person working full-time can't get above the poverty line. You can't earn a living on the minimum wage.