“If we were able to keep our income, we’d have been married a long time ago.” Sherri Daniel, who has spinal stenosis and achondroplasia,...

*This interview is the third and last installment of BPR’s series, The Last Line of Defense: How Expansive Should the US Social Safety...

*This interview is the second installment of BPR’s series, The Last Line of Defense: How Expansive Should the US Social Safety Net Be? In...

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered schools and put millions out of work, one in seven children in the United States lived in...

Public schools are responsible for educating all students; however, in poor and minority communities, they often don’t succeed. Students...

Morrisania is one of the most heavily policed neighborhoods in the Bronx. Despite living in a public housing complex there, Maria was...

There are many reasons to be optimistic about global poverty rates. As The Economist reported, “between 1990 and 2010, [the number of...

Court debt and bus fares are nothing more than a mild annoyance for most Rhode Islanders: a transaction accepted without second thought...

Brazil’s Bolsa Família has dutifully served as the flagship of Brazilian social welfare since its christening in 2003. The conditional...

Panama City is an intersection. It lies between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; between jungles and man-made waterways; between colorful...

Imagine living in virtual darkness: zero access to Internet connection in your home; shut out from scientific and technological...

Statistically speaking, the US government understands poverty about as well as Marie Antoinette did. For the last 60 years, the United...

Joel Berg is the executive director of Hunger Free America, formerly known as the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. Before joining...

The rising political profile of income inequality, particularly in the current presidential election cycle, has failed to quell callous...

Sandra Killet, a single mother of two in New York City, ostensibly lives in poverty, at least according to most people’s intuitive...

Over the past six years, the Obama Administration has drawn government attention and funding toward the problem of America’s food...

The community members of Villa Soldati, a slum on the southwest end of Buenos Aires’ sprawling outskirts, are stuck between a rock and a...

More children in the United States live in poverty today than did during the Great Recession, according to a recent report by the Annie...

Over the past couple of years, Republicans have felt increasing pressure to put forth free market proposals to combat poverty....

When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, it undertook a major expansion of Medicaid—a public assistance program that offers...