Category: Poverty
In Oakland, a poet and her crew of “poverty scholars” are doing just that

New York’s Eric Adams became the latest mayor to clear out the unhoused — a cruel reminder of how the liberal establishment fails the neediest

“We think there ought to be an alternative to the corporate and for-profit system of housing.”
Such firms control a huge portion of the world’s wealth. Instead of using that power to solve climate change, they’re blocking progress and profiting off inequality
The Resurgence of the Culture-of-Poverty Debate

The American Dream should not mean that we stack the odds immeasurably against certain people, and if they work hard and are lucky enough to survive, a few of them will make it. There’s a better dream

Wealth inequality has spiraled out of control. It’s time to end this vicious cycle

We’re seeing tent cities & massive homelessness in cities across America because a handful of Wall Street billionaires want to make a killing: Will America remove housing from their clutches?
Over 2 million homeowners are behind on their mortgage payments
Authorities’ hesitant half-measures skirt the fundamental, self-evident truth: that what unhoused people need are homes