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)

Op-Eds

Where did all the poor people go?

August 6, 2020 8:11 am

HUD Secretary Ben Carson has had it with the media's anti-Trump nit-picking.

Beltway Confidential

Outrage over Trump’s low-income housing rule is, naturally, fake

Eddie Scarry -

July 30, 2020 5:48 pm

Jeff Bezos, left, and MacKenzie Bezos arrive at the 2018 Sean Penn J/P Haitian Relief Organization Gala at the Milk Studios on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, in Los Angeles.

News

Jeff Bezos ex-wife MacKenzie Scott donates $1.7B to charitable causes, including racial equity

Zach Halaschak -

July 28, 2020 11:08 pm

John Persinger, CEO of the Erie Downtown Development Corp., stands on the rooftop of one of the buildings that the corporation purchased along State Street and North Park Row in Erie, Pa.

Beltway Confidential

Opportunity abounds when government gets out of the way

Salena Zito -

July 21, 2020 5:13 pm

Pope Francis delivers a blessing from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Energy and Environment

Vatican: Coronavirus pandemic makes environmental care more urgent

Nicholas Rowan -

June 18, 2020 2:46 pm

News

UN warns nearly 50M people could enter into extreme poverty and go hungry amid pandemic

Mica Soellner -

June 11, 2020 12:31 am

Beltway Confidential

How Child Protective Services is punishing poor parents during coronavirus

Andrew Brown -

May 20, 2020 5:29 pm

News

Brett Favre plans to repay Mississippi after $1.1M speech was included in audit of misused funds

Madison Dibble -

May 7, 2020 11:47 am

Beltway Confidential

School closures: Another way the lockdown disproportionately affects the poor

Timothy P. Carney -

April 18, 2020 1:58 pm

President Trump is seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 19, 2017. A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans say the federal courts were acting properly when they blocked President Donald Trumpâs travel ban from going into effect.

News

Trump warns California lawmakers to fix homelessness crisis or ‘we’re going to do it’

Andrew Mark Miller -

February 19, 2020 10:01 pm

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Tag: Poverty

Where did all the poor people go?

Outrage over Trump’s low-income housing rule is, naturally, fake

Jeff Bezos ex-wife MacKenzie Scott donates $1.7B to charitable causes, including racial equity

Opportunity abounds when government gets out of the way

Vatican: Coronavirus pandemic makes environmental care more urgent

UN warns nearly 50M people could enter into extreme poverty and go hungry amid pandemic

How Child Protective Services is punishing poor parents during coronavirus

Brett Favre plans to repay Mississippi after $1.1M speech was included in audit of misused funds

School closures: Another way the lockdown disproportionately affects the poor

Trump warns California lawmakers to fix homelessness crisis or ‘we’re going to do it’

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