The end of progress against extreme poverty?
The world has made huge progress in reducing extreme poverty; could this be coming to an end? In the last three decades, the world has made prog...
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Poverty in the USA - Wealth, Inequality, Taxes, and Policy
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The U.S. Can No Longer Hide From Its Deep Poverty Problem - The New York Times
We might direct assistance to the millions of Americans whose suffering is as bad as that of poor people in Africa or Asia.
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Poverty, segregation persist in U.S. schools, report says | PBS NewsHour
Too often, low-income, black and Latino students end up in schools with crumbling walls, old textbooks and unqualified teachers, according to a rep...
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A.I. and Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty - The New York Times
Conventional wisdom says artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs. But it can also improve education and employment. But it’s time we start t...
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Poverty and the High cost of College
The California Sunday Magazine, 2017: "The College Try: Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But the...
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Miami: Amid economic recovery, numbers of working poor are growing, United Way report shows
Miami Herald, 2017: "About six out of 10 Miami-Dade County residents are struggling to pay for the basic necessities of food, housing, transportati...
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Why America Can’t Solve Homelessness | HuffPost
As the face of homelessness changes, politicians cling to limited policy ideas and quick fixes.
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Seattle homeless population third-largest in U.S. | The Seattle Times
A new federal report on homelessness shows King County behind only Los Angeles and New York City in the number of people living without permanent s...
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Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth
SEATTLE (AP) - Housing prices are soaring here thanks to the tech industry, but the boom comes with a consequence: A surge in homelessness marked b...
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Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Goalkeepers 2019 Report Description EXAMINING INEQUALITY HOW GEOGRAPHY AND GENDER STACK THE DECK FOR (OR AGAINST) YOU Co-chairs Bill & Melin...
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Across the rich world, an extraordinary jobs boom is under way - The Economist 2019
Many popular perceptions about the modern labour market are wrong
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