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 ...

Generating $27.7 trillion in 2023 alone, the United States is the world’s largest economy by a wide margin — and has been for ...

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 ...

Home to less than 5% of the global population, while accounting for over 26% of gross domestic product globally the United ...

Asian, Black and Latino New Yorkers were about twice as likely to live in poverty compared to white New Yorkers, according to the report. The poverty rate was slightly higher for children ...

Henry George’s 1879 book Progress and Poverty articulated the problem felt by many people during the Gilded Age — that despite the booming economy, many people were left behind in poverty.

Of those living in poverty, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than US $1.25 a day. Skip to main content Toggle navigation Welcome to the United Nations ...