Diverse Readings on Poverty and Inequality

Benjamin Selwyn recommends readings on cultural shifts .

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Overcoming Obstacles

Erica L. Green, Mark Walker and Eliza Shapiro write about the obstacles young african-american women face in their school and community .

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Exiting Poverty

Gillian White reviews Peter Temin's arguement that the U.S. is becoming a two-class state defined by income inequality. Temin's research indicates that it takes a generation for people to work themselves out of poverty, and that only if everything goes well.

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Minimum Income Experiments

Simon Copland reports on experiments on giving those in poverty a guaranteed minimum wage .

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Poor Quality Networks Plague Inner-City

Patrick Nelson shares university research indicating poor people have lower-quality cell phone service and data services available to them.

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Internet for the Poor

Matt Hamblen reports that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will charge a fee on telecommunications services to allow the poor to have internet access .

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Poverty Among Military Veterans

Miranda Leitsinger reports that former soldiers are often hungry due to low incomes.

According to Eric Morath, most welfare recipients already have a job. The need exists for higher-wage employment for many in the U.S.

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Poverty and Educational Attainment

David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy report that the middle class in the U.S. is faltering , in part due to poor educational attainment:

Educational attainment in the United States has risen far more slowly than in much of the industrialized world over the last three decades, making it harder for the American economy to maintain its share of highly skilled, well-paying jobs.

Americans between the ages of 55 and 65 have literacy, numeracy and technology skills that are above average relative to 55- to 65-year-olds in rest of the industrialized world, according to a recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international group. Younger Americans, though, are not keeping pace: Those between 16 and 24 rank near the bottom among rich countries, well behind their counterparts in Canada, Australia, Japan and Scandinavia and close to those in Italy and Spain.

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Poverty

Jordan Weissman contrasts the lot of the poor in the U.S. with the poor in other nations.

The UN has a short essay which attempts to poverty, which has differing meanings for different people.

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