America’s Rural Poor: Pictures from a World That Many Don’t See Lauren Kaori Gurley November 20, 2015 Allensworth, Calif., has a population of 471 and 54 percent live below the poverty level.

Namely, helping the wealthy even as the poor stare down a barrel of cuts that will take food off the table and keep them in fear of making a necessary trip to the hospital. America, it’s time ...

This article also appeared in print, under the headline “The Poor's Many Faces,” in the October 15, 2001, issue.

Back in the early 1990s, for instance, only 9 percent of all poor women who headed households worked. It’s especially revealing to see why the poor don’t work.

Today’s poor families are structured differently: In 1973, the first year for which data are available, more than half (51.4%) of poor families were headed by a married couple; 45.4% were headed by ...

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Indeed, the new poor, are the former middle class. Somebody has to tell the truth about poverty in America. It is the telling of truth that allows suffering to speak.

The virus has spread to 50 million people - a number large enough for a social revolution of sorts, according to the duo. They write, "If the 50 million poor ever reached consensus about the roots ...

Being poor is so bad for your well-being, it literally shortens your life span. I merely want to make plain that being poor does not provide insight into my experience as a Black man in America.

In their book Katherine Newman and Victor Chen researched America's "missing class" that the authors contend consists of 57 million people that live between middle class and poverty. Ms.

The poor in America are actually worse off by most measures than the poor in other advanced countries. Whether it’s the number of hours worked, the social safety net, intergenerational mobility ...