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"The Poverty Paradox" author says tackling inequality requires looking beyond, and not blaming, individuals.

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?

“The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it," he told Congress in his first State of the Union address. “We cannot afford to lose it." Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Yet as the administration was to learn on both the domestic and foreign battlefields, a country marching off to war must have a credible estimate of the enemy’s size and strength. Surprisingly, up until this point, the U.S. had no official measure of poverty and therefore no statistics on its scope, shape or changing nature. The U.S. needed to come up wit...

Durango’s 35 parks that ‘make life better’ Durango, Colorado Currently Sat 1% chance of precipitation 64% chance of precipitation 46% chance of precipitation A guide to the city’s valued green spaces By Shannon Mullane Durango and Pine River Valley reporter Saturday, May 1, 2021 5:33 AM Jessica Iudiciani, left, watches her son Hudson Rizzo, 2, climb the slide in Animas City Park on Thursday, as Nova Oberle watches her son, Cash Oberle, 7, make his way up. Animas City Park near 32nd Street and along East Second Avenue is possibly Durango’s o...