"This is the story about a question we never thought to ask - Who owns poverty? - and about an unexpected answer that challenges everything that we thought we k

In A People's History of Poverty in America, political scientist Stephen Pimpare brings the human lives and real-life stories of those who struggle with poverty

Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.

Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Pove

"Collecting dozens of interviews conducted over 50 years to give voice to the 16 percent that live below the poverty line, journalist Kenan Heise ... addresses