Poverty Archives

In this Nov. 1, 2013 file photo, a volunteer at right helps a customer at the St. Ignatius Food Pantry in Chicago. According to a report released Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, by the Chicago-based Social IMPACT Research Center, the overall Illinois poverty rate is the same as it was a half century ago, despite scores of state and federal aid programs and a dramatic drop in the number of elderly considered poor. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Report: Illinois poverty remains stubbornly high

January 30, 2014 5:00 am

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently released its 2014 Gates Annual Latter, titled

Columnists

Gates Foundation debunks the Malthusian Catastrophe

Austin Bay -

January 29, 2014 5:00 am

Rock star Bono speaks during a panel discussion

Business

Cameron, Bono link poverty, climate at AP debate

John Heilprin -

January 24, 2014 8:06 pm

Lyndon Johnson laying out his War on Poverty to Congress in 1964. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Suburgatory: 16,361,075 poor live in suburbs, 13,359,850 in cities

Paul Bedard -

January 24, 2014 5:00 am

Business

Poverty TV: Hit UK show stirs welfare debate

Sylvia Hui -

January 23, 2014 2:14 pm

President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Jan. 8, 1964. Speaking in the House of Representatives, the chief executive said one of his aims was

Columnists

The ‘war on poverty’ made the problem worse

Thomas Sowell -

January 22, 2014 5:00 am

Bill Gates said that by 2035 no nation will be as poor as any of the 35 that the World Bank now classifies as low-income, even adjusting for inflation. (AP Photo)

Economy

Bill Gates sees no poor countries left by 2035 in annual letter

Bloomberg News -

January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Time Magazine Endorses ‘Polyandry’

Daniel Halper -

January 20, 2014 1:22 pm

Boys need a chance to thrive and succeed. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Education

On masculinity and the War on Poverty

Melanie Sturm -

January 20, 2014 5:00 am

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is using the holiday weekend honoring Martin Luther King Jr. to continue pressing for raising Illinois' minimum wage to at least $10. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Illinois governor presses bid to raise minimum wage

Washington Examiner -

January 20, 2014 5:00 am

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