In the early years of food stamps the goal wasn't necessarily to feed America's poor. The idea was to buttress the price of food after the decline in crop prices had created a crisis in rural America.

Looking at children’s wellbeing in rich countries like the U.S. in 2007, scholars found that inequality may matter a lot more for kids’ lives than absolute income level.

Too much pollution can pose a health risk to anyone, but whether it is lethal or not mostly depends on the person's underlying health—and economic—status.

One scholar sees more in the Christmas food of authors like Charles Dickens—English national identity and class.

College students are notoriously strapped for cash. For some, however, that youthful poverty becomes actual homelessness.

In 1917, a food riot erupted in Brooklyn over the prices of staples. These forms of protest, sadly, are not quite yet ready for the dustbin of history.

In recent years, activists in cities across the country have repeatedly clashed with municipal officials over anti-vagrancy laws.

The history behind why urban black neighborhoods face much higher rates of poverty, crime, and overburdened schools than white suburban areas do.

To end poverty, public policy must provide much more than economic resources

20 years after welfare reform, stigma surrounding cash benefits remains.