The Root

Tavis and Cornel's Solution to Poverty

Last summer PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley and author Cornel West embarked on an 18-city poverty tour to highlight the hardship of poor people. Despite a record number of Americans — one in two — ...
Center for American Progress

Poverty Still Plagues America: Center’s Poverty Task Force Begins Search for Solutions

Latest poverty findings show racial disparities persist, buttressing the Center’s renewed push for solutions by our Task Force on Poverty. New Census Bureau data released earlier this week illustrates ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Poverty solutions will mean New Mexicans thrive

New Mexico has made significant strides in addressing poverty, but we must ask: Are we truly addressing the root causes and bridging the wealth divide, or are we merely offering short-term relief? The ...
Seacoastonline.com

Commentary: The challenge of poverty can be solved. We have a solution for the Seacoast

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 ...
The Business Journals

Symptom and cause: Finding the solution to poverty

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A conversation with Tomeka Hart Wigginton, president and ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Douglas County group hopes ‘data walks,’ exploration of guaranteed income project will lead to lasting solutions to poverty

Several people gathered for a "data walk" hosted by hosted by LiveWell Douglas County and the Douglas County Community Foundation on Friday, November 15, 2024. As they take a deep look at health and ...
Philadelphia Mag

There’s a Solution for Lifting People Out of Poverty In Philadelphia. Why Don’t We Try It?

A few weeks ago, the U.S. Census Bureau released a new set of figures about poverty in America. Unfortunately, the takeaway was one that’s all too familiar. Philadelphia remains the poorest large city ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty

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 ...
HeraldNet

Comment: U.S. abandoned its best solution to child poverty

The expanded child tax credit lapsed in December as the cost of President Biden’s spending plans became a sticking point in Congress. Yet amid the debate over whether its success in reducing poverty ...
The Business Journals

Guest opinion: The local solution for poverty is right under our noses

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Twenty weeks is all it really takes to take someone from ...
Crain's Detroit

Real world solutions to address poverty

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Since 1906, Matrix Human Services has helped Detroit ...