If you are campaigning for an increase in the federal minimum wage, chances are you are interested in reducing poverty levels in the United States, which currently sit at 15 percent. I would advocate ...

America excels at innovation. We’ve developed solutions, both intricate and simple, for a range of complex problems. Though we are leaders in technology, medicine, and entrepreneurship, we’ve ...

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The expansion of the child tax credits under the American Rescue Plan halved child poverty. When the policy ended, child poverty shot back up. This year, 11 states either created a state-level child ...

Despite the roughly $1-trillion that has been spent on grants and loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, the World Bank reports that nearly half the world’s population ...

As Congress debates major tax reforms, a proven anti-poverty tool hangs in the balance: the child tax credit. This credit reduces a family’s tax bill by up to $2,000 per child, but its current ...

Joe Thomas is The Daily Signal’s Virginia correspondent. He is a 37-year broadcasting veteran with 17 years covering Virginia from the marches to the memorials and everything in between. Ever since ...

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Peter Edelman is a professor at Georgetown Law School and longtime political activist who has spent much of his career trying to assist Americans who are living in poverty. As he explained in his ...

Poverty is a large and complex problem and will require complex solutions involving everyone from average folks donating canned green beans to our highest elected officials who direct public policy In ...