Image credit: Sharon McCutcheon/Unsplash Washington University’s Mark Rank examines the misconceptions that many of us have about how people end up in poverty. There are few areas of American life entrenched with as many myths as poverty. According to Mark Rank, a professor of social welfare at the Brown School at Washington University, the majority of Americans will experience poverty at some point in their adult lives. “There’s a perception of poverty as an individual failing. We need to start thinking about it as a structural failing.” — Mark Rank, author of ”Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty”