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On January 24, 2018, Nobel Prize–winning economist Angus Deaton published an op-ed in The New York Times entitled “The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem.” According to Deaton, 5.3 million Americans are living on less than $4.00 per day and “are as destitute as the world’s poorest people.… [Their] suffering, through material poverty and poor health, is as bad [as] or worse than that of the people in Africa or in Asia.”

Just a small amount of money can lift poor folks and their children out of poverty, according to a pair of recent studies.

Catholic Health Association officials said the organization supports provisions in the President Joe Bidens Build Back Better Act that would expand health care access and affordability, and reduce disparities.

Catholic Health Association officials said the organization supports provisions in the President Joe Bidens Build Back Better Act that would expand health care access and affordability as the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The way we often think about poverty in the United States is as an individual failing, social welfare professor Mark Robert Rank says. So, what would happen if the U.S. redefined poverty as being impoverished of support?

Danilo Trisi is the Director of Poverty and Inequality Research. His work primarily focuses on trends in poverty, deep poverty, income inequality, the labor market, and the effectiveness of economic...