Poverty, by America is Princeton sociology professor Matthew Desmond’s follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize–winning 2016 book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Where Evicted combined ...

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One of the four principal goals of the welfare reform of 1996 was to increase married two-parent families. The current welfare reform proposals advanced by President George W. Bush and recently ...

Unions are weak. Wage growth is non-existent. Plutocrats have all the power. And yet the myth that education is all we need to finally “fix” poverty persists. AlterNet education editor Jennifer ...

A teacher works with a student on numbers in the Fort Osage School District. Many schools in Missouri invested in learning mentors and tutors after the pandemic began to help students academically ...

A Parent’s Guide to San Diego Schools: Our guide to San Diego schools provides families with everything they need to know to make the best choice for their child. Read more stories from the guide here ...

There is no question that educating girls is a prerequisite for eradicating poverty. Education empowers and transforms women. It allows them to break the "traditional" cycle of exclusion that keeps ...

Throughout my career, I have maintained one constant, overriding belief: Education is the ultimate equalizer, and the surest route out of poverty. Yet, our school system continues to fail students ...

The question almost stumped Deborah Smith-Olson, the chairwoman and CEO of Lake-Osceola State Bank. If someone didn’t go to college, what could they do for a living in Baldwin, a small town in the ...

The United States ranks as the 10th most developed country in the world, behind nations such as Norway, Australia, and Switzerland, according to the 2016 Human Development Index of the United Nations ...

Poverty remains the biggest driver of school dropouts in Bangladesh, accounting for nearly two-thirds of cases among students enrolled in catch-up education programs, according to new Unicef-backed ...