World Bank says children born today could earn 51% more over lifetime if their country’s human capital improved Deteriorating health, education and training in many developing countries is ...

Middle-class families don’t feel as secure as they once did. It isn’t because the poverty line is “really” $140,000, as Michael Green claimed in a viral essay last year. Yet the impoverished feeling ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. We are living in a new Gilded Age. The first, from roughly 1870 to 1890, was marked by dramatic ...

EXCLUSIVE: Supernatural thriller Poor Boy is set to star Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential), Teresa Palmer (The Fall Guy) and Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale) with AMP launching world sales ahead of the ...

What happens when you grow up poor in America—and stay in touch with the same filmmaker for more than a decade? In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast, host Raney Aronson-Rath speaks with ...

An indelible look at the realities of growing up poor in America. An indelible look at the realities of growing up poor in America. Filmed over 14 years with kids from three families, from adolescents ...

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The capital of Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, runs on aid. A city built in the 1970s by the World Bank, Lilongwe’s straight streets are filled with charities, development agencies and ...

“My grandfather’s death, six months into the pandemic, is more than a tragedy,” Sarah Jones wrote at New York magazine, where she is a columnist, in late 2020. “His fate is as political as it is ...

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self-image of ...

There are quite a few categories of people who have reason to fear Donald Trump’s policy agenda for 2025, which he can be expected to pursue via a combination of executive actions and legislation (the ...

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