This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two publications on the future of work crossed my desk recently. One was the 2019 World Development Report (WDR), “The Changing Nature of Work“; the other a report by the Pathways for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Join us Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 12pm PT / 3pm ET for a critical discussion on the urgent need to bolster the social safety net to fight poverty in the US. Food…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It can be very challenging to teach children about the importance of giving back. Philanthropy is such an essential part of human culture and history, but it often doesn’t come…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America today is as divided as it has ever been, in terms of incomes and opportunities, politics, and, perhaps most importantly, hopes and dreams. Hope matters. As our earlier work…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As families with children start receiving the first of their monthly checks from the American Rescue Plan’s expanded child tax credit, Robert Greenstein calls the benefit transformational in reaching the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colleagues and I recently conducted a qualitative survey of poor women in Jordan to further the understanding of justice as a dimension of poverty. These women had experienced legal problems involving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What do millions of people who occupied Wall Street, felt the “Bern,” wore pink hats with pointy ears, and donned baseball caps with the slogan “Make America Great Again” have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As COVID-19 reversed decades of global progress on ending extreme inequality, the world’s wealthiest recorded record financial gains. Billionaires across the globe — collectively worth more than 13 trillion dollars — saw their wealth…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Tisha Guthrie learned in 2009 that she’d received a housing voucher that would help with her rent in Baltimore, she was excited. She’d joined the waiting list five years…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers have discovered a link between poverty and smaller, slower growing brain regions. Children in poverty are more likely to have cognitive and behavioral difficulties than their better-off peers. Plenty…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Coronavirus transmission rates may be down in New York City, but in the Bronx, my community is still facing the effects of three pandemics: COVID-19, white supremacy, and climate injustice.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the world begins to emerge on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a new-found realization of the interconnectedness of the big, hard issues we face and…