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Matthew Desmond, a Princeton sociologist who has won a MacArthur "genius" grant as well as a Pulitzer for his previous book, Evicted, devotes his latest work to expounding a "theory" that will explain "why there is so much poverty in this land of abundance," the United States. According to Desmond, the American people as a whole are its cause.
In 1962, Michael Harrington wrote The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Harrington’s book was a catalyst for President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty. Harrington explained that in the early 1960s, amid the affluence of post-war America, between 40 million and 50 million citizens of the United States were poor. In the early 1960s, the U.S. had a significant poverty problem.
On welfare reform’s 25th anniversary, experts ponder how to measure success
Please verify your request* Advertisement More than 8 million people fell into poverty in the U.S. in the second half of 2020, according to a group of economists who say they have developed a new way to provide “near-real-time” estimates using Census data. In an analysis released last week, the economists – Jeehoon Han of Zhejiang University, Bruce D. Meyer of the University of Chicago, and James X. Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame – said that the poverty rate fell in the first six months of 2020, dropping from 10.8% in January to 9.3% in June, driven lower by the ge...
The War On Poverty’s Results Share Share Trending Data shows income inequality hasn’t changed over the past 100 years, and the three key wealth indicators are: productivity improvement (which has improved dramatically), income mobility, and personal well-being. “While income inequality is rising, inequality of personal well-being is dropping.”[1] George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen explains further: [T]he inequality of personal well-being is sharply down over the past hundred years and perhaps over the past twenty years as well. Bill Gates is much, much richer than I ...