Op-ed: Indivar Dutta-Gupta & Dorian Warren, The War on Poverty Wasn’t Enough, Progressive Mag. (Mar. 4, 2024 ..read more

Annie Lowrey, The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won, The Atlantic (May 14, 2023). Excerpt below: Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it. This is the thesis of the lauded sociologist Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, by America. The best seller is at once a careful exploration of poverty statistics; a deeply reported depiction of the lived experiences of the poor; an examination of the ways America’s wealthy exploit the masses; and a case for ending poverty. Desmond shows how the country’s employers, financial institutions, and landlords e ..read more

New Book: Brent Cebul, Illusions of Progress Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century, U. Penn. Press (March 2023). Overview below: Today, the word “neoliberal” is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoliberalism’s policy tools can be traced to the ideas and practices of mid-twentieth-century liberalism. In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul chronicles the rise of what he terms “supply-side liberalism,” a powerful and enduring orientation toward politics and the economy, race and poverty ..read more

New Book: Brent Cebul, Illusions of Progress Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century, (U. Penn. Press 2023). Description below: Today, the word “neoliberal” is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the 1970s. Yet the roots of many of neoliberalism’s policy tools can be traced to the ideas and practices of mid-twentieth-century liberalism. In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul chronicles the rise of what he terms “supply-side liberalism,” a powerful and enduring orientation toward politics and the economy, race and poverty, tha ..read more

New Article: Hannah M. Dahle, Creating Oases Throughout America’s Food Deserts, 47 BYU L. Rev. 287 (2021). Introduction below: A food desert is an area or region of the United States that features a large proportion of households with lower income, inadequate access to transportation, and limited food retailers to provide fresh produce to consumers. Though food deserts are often unheard of by communities with access to food and other retail opportunities, these food deserts appear disproportionately in low-income minority communities—not just areas with low income. While many grocers open shop ..read more

New Article: Javier C. Hernández, China Aims to Extreme Poverty Covid-19 Exposes Gaps, N.Y. Times, (Oct. 26th, 2020). Four decades of fast economic growth lifted most people in China out of poverty, and the Communist Party has vowed to help those who remain at the bottom. Mr. Xi’s antipoverty drive is focused on around five million people who earn less than 92 cents a day, down from nearly 56 million five years ago ..read more

News Coverage: Khiara M. Bridges, The Many Ways Institutional Racism Kills Black People, Time Magazine (June 11, 2020 ..read more

Op-Ed: Bernadette Atuahene, Detroit. New Orleans. D.C. Predatory Cities Are on the Rise., N.Y. Times (June 11, 2020 ..read more

New Book: Gene R. Nichol, The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina (The University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Overview below: These are the faces of poverty in North Carolina: scores of homeless men, women, and children take refuge in makeshift camps, barely hidden in the woods near some of our most affluent neighborhoods. Hundreds wait in lines hours long to receive basic health care at underfunded free clinics. In large cities and small towns, children–especially children of color–rely on meals at their schools to keep hunger at bay, while parents struggle in jobs that fail to pay living ..read more

Article: Robert Rector & Vijay Menon, Understanding the Hidden $1.1 Trillion Welfare System and How to Reform It, Heritage Foundation – The Backgrounder, April 5, 2018. Abstract below: The true cost of welfare or aid to the poor is largely unknown because the spending is fragmented into myriad programs. Current welfare is focused largely on increasing benefits and enrollments and redistributing income. Self-defeating behaviors that increase the need for assistance are rarely even mentioned. Policymakers should replace welfare’s current focus with a new set of interlinked goals: reducing se ..read more