Don’t get too excited about ‘Opportunity Zones’ just yet
After almost two years in office, President Trump has laid out a policy to spend money and investments in 'distressed ...
Tag: U.S. poverty
Twin Cities gentrification continues to displace low-wage workers
It’s no secret that the lack of affordable housing in Minnesota, and in particular in the Twin Cities, has remained ...
New data paint an unpleasant picture of U.S. poverty
The headline was that 39.7 million people were poor in 2017. This works out to 12.3 percent of the population ...
U.S. media continue to ignore or misrepresent poverty
It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty. —Ela Bhatt Something more fundamental than household economics may be ...
As threat of poverty grows, we must continue the fight against it
Social-inequality trends over the past half century indicate that class divisions are growing more rigid, most are getting worse off, ...
