BlogAction Day, is a day when bloggers around the world focus on one particular topic on their respective blogs. The topic for 2008 is poverty. This global day encourages discussion and leads to ...

A WORLD FREE of poverty would once have sounded fanciful. For most of human history it was barely even imaginable. Around ...

Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and a National Book Critics Circle award. His ...

A Nepalese immigrant in his early 40s described the stress and uncertainty he felt during college about how to afford rent, food and tuition despite having a scholarship. A man of Hmong origin in his ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The goal of alleviating global poverty is not ...

Dom Byrne is a freelance radio and podcast producer based in Brighton, UK. Poverty is about more than just meeting basic material needs, says Catherine Thomas. Its corrosive effects are also social ...

NOTE: This post was co-authored with members of the CUESI Lab—Lindsey Nenadal, Ph.D., Katherine Griffin, Ph.D., Taylor Hazelbaker, M.A., and Kristina Brittenham, J ...