Poverty

You Can’t Stop Evictions if You Don’t Pay People’s Rent

Peter Hepburn and Erika Martinez

Sept 14, 2021 5:40 AM

The IRS Is the Largest Anti-Poverty Benefits Administrator in the U.S.—and Needs to Act Like It

Cassandra Robertson and Gabriel Zucker

Aug 11, 2021 5:50 AM

Homeless New Yorkers Don’t Want to Go Back to Normal

Mary Harris

July 19, 2021 1:40 PM

The Hidden Costs of Dollar General

Cleo Levin

July 07, 2021 5:45 AM

Once, We Talked About the First and Third Worlds. Today, It’s the Vaxxed and Unvaxxed.

Raghu Karnad

June 28, 2021 11:30 AM

Millions of Americans Are About to Lose Their Homes

Mary Harris

June 16, 2021 1:46 PM

The Problem With Free Transit

Henry Grabar

June 01, 2021 5:50 AM

America Can’t Just Build Its Way Out of an Eviction Crisis

Peter Hepburn and Devin Q. Rutan

May 06, 2021 5:45 AM

The Miles to the Grocery Store Got Longer This Year

Julia Craven

April 09, 2021 6:53 PM

Biden Can’t Fight Inequality Without Debt Cancellation

Liz Theoharis and Astra Taylor

April 06, 2021 1:48 PM

The Supreme Court Was Once a Champion of the Poor. One President Put a Stop to That.

Dahlia Lithwick

March 29, 2021 5:39 PM

How Poverty Taught Me to Get Every Dollar I Deserve From Coronavirus Relief

Ruth Fowler

March 11, 2021 1:51 PM

Biden’s COVID Bill Is His First Step Toward an FDR-Style Presidency

Jordan Weissmann

March 09, 2021 2:43 PM

The Failing Lifeline for Low-Income Americans

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How Did You Sleep Last Night? Darin Mann, Salt Lake City.

Lori Teresa Yearwood

Feb 26, 2021 9:00 AM

Asking People One at a Time: How Did You Sleep Last Night?

Lori Teresa Yearwood

Feb 18, 2021 3:24 PM

The Pandemic Is Forcing Cities to Rethink Water

Martina Guzmán

Jan 13, 2021 9:00 AM

Nomadland Is a Masterpiece Made by Two Separate Virtuosos

Dana Stevens

Dec 02, 2020 5:50 AM

What Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy Adaptation Leaves Out

Rebecca Onion

Nov 24, 2020 12:07 PM

The Rural Poverty That Created Dolly Parton

Sarah Smarsh

Oct 13, 2020 6:00 AM

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