For the whole of modern civilization, humans have attempted and failed to eradicate poverty. What can we learn from generations of failed efforts? Using a combination of animation, archival ...

Obviously, census tracts change, and the Census bureau has changed how it measures poverty over the years, but it's a good at-a-glance look at its history in Chicago. If you find animated GIFs ...

A dream that animated Martin Luther King Jr. at the end ... And now he’s chasing it in a slender, highly readable polemic called “White Poverty.” But Barber’s book is not just the ...

WASHINGTON — For a generation or more, America’s high levels of child poverty set it apart from other rich nations, leaving millions of young people lacking support as basic as food and ...