A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the...

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron...

Today, a third of American children are born outside of marriage, up from one child in twenty in ...

Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, esp...

This book tells the story of how an ambitious—and risky—social experiment affected th...

Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care f...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that ...

The world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage jobs, t...

Welfare mothers are popularly viewed as passively dependent on their checks and averse to work. R...

The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segre...

Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care f...