Just one serious academic book has been published this year to mark the 50th anniversary of one of America’s most innovative and productive efforts: Lyndon Johnson’s work to eradicate poverty Legacies ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: ...

Rural Macon County, Ala., in the heart of one of the United States' most disadvantaged areas. Geographic inequality is the subject of a sweeping new book, "The Injustice of Place." (Julie Bennett/FRE) ...

For generations, public and private efforts have sought to eradicate poverty in America. Government spending on anti-poverty measures has gone up, and the number of charitable agencies dedicated to ...

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — An author held a talk on Wednesday night about poverty in America and how political policies have failed to address it. Matthew Desmond, the author of the book “Poverty by America” ...

As election-year ads and social media campaigns focus on politicians’ personalities, Rev. William J. Barber II and other advocates for the poor want voters to look instead at policies they say divide ...

A WORLD I NEVER MADE—James T. Farrell—Vanguard ($2.50). In the first four novels of James Thomas Farrell, the poverty-oppressed O’Neill family emerges as part of the background of Chicago’s South Side ...

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