The history of capitalism, as portrayed in academia and among much of the media, is a sad story. It’s one of smokestacks, sweatshops, child labor, robber barons, social stratification and general ...

The extensive array of government assistance programs — including Social Security, unemployment insurance, veterans’ benefits, nutritional aid, rental assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit — ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Pew Research has a good report up this week on child poverty during the great ...

Around six million people were in very deep poverty in 2021-22 - 1.5 million more than 20 years ago The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has today produced a scathing report revealing the sheer scale of ...

The official poverty measure has a lot of problems, and we'll have to wait until November for the better alternative measure from the census. For one thing, the official measure totally ignores the ...

From Lawrence McQuillian of the Independent Institute: The poverty rate in the United States fell by half from 1950 to the start of the “War on Poverty.” And it was on track to continue falling. But ...

Although the number of people living in extreme poverty decreased to 5.1 million between 2009 and 2023, 10.8 million, almost ...

Social Security is arguably the most important program in place for our nation's retired workers. According to the Social Security Administration, more than 60% of retired workers count on their ...

The Philippines has lagged behind its neighbors in Southeast Asia in reducing poverty even as its economic expansion mostly kept pace the past two decades, which may stall efforts to achieve an ...