Poverty led to social problems across America. Dr Martin Luther King Jnr blamed poverty as a cause of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles in 1965.

And now he’s chasing it in a slender, highly readable polemic called “White Poverty.” But Barber’s book is not just the continuation of a noble tradition. Amid all the strange and ...

A new book looks to redefine how people see poverty. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, the co-author of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy ...

The US Census Bureau is directed each year to establish a poverty threshold, but there is very little information accessible on what forms part of that calculation other than they increase as the ...

When we emailed the White House for Biden’s data source, a spokesperson there pointed us to supplemental poverty numbers from the Census Bureau. By those numbers, The White House said ...