Jason DeParle

A Historic Decrease in Poverty

The successful expansion of the safety net during the pandemic reminds us that high levels of poverty are a political choice, not a fate.

Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty

by Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, and Heather E. Bullock

2021 Poverty Projections: Assessing the Impact of Benefits and Stimulus Measures

a report by Laura Wheaton, Linda Giannarelli, and Ilham Dehry

Thrifty Food Plan, 2021

a report by the Food and Nutrition Service of the US Department of Agriculture

November 18, 2021 issue

Terri Childs and her daughter Miracle in front of their apartment in the McBride housing project, shortly before it was closed and then demolished, Cairo, Illinois, 2018

How to Fix Child Poverty

The National Academies estimate that child poverty costs the country $800 billion to $1.1 trillion a year—including lower adult earnings, worse health, and higher crime.

Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty

by Jeff Madrick

A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty

a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, edited by Greg Duncan and Suzanne Le Menestrel

July 23, 2020 issue

Friends and family at the funeral of a bus driver who was shot and killed during an encounter with a gang member as he was returning from his daily route, Apopa, El Salvador, September 2016

The American Nightmare

‘The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life’ by Lauren Markham

The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

by Lauren Markham

August 16, 2018 issue

Kerry James Marshall: Better Homes, Better Gardens, 1994. Marshall’s work will be on view in the exhibition ‘Figuring History,’ at the Seattle Art Museum, February 15–May 13, 2018.

When Government Drew the Color Line

Richard Rothstein’s ‘The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America’

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein

February 22, 2018 issue

The Sea Swallows People

Fire at Sea

a film by Gianfranco Rosi

All at Sea: The Policy Challenges of Rescue, Interception, and Long-Term Response to Maritime Migration

by Kathleen Newland, with Elizabeth Collett, Kate Hooper, and Sarah Flamm

Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe’s Refugee Crisis

by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson

February 23, 2017 issue

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2014; photograph by Mark Power from the series ‘Postcards from America’

Kicked Out in America!

Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City’

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

March 10, 2016 issue

A Letter on Rape in Prisons

May 10, 2007 issue

The American Prison Nightmare

Among the many impediments to reform has been the gap between the people who make criminal justice policy and those who live with the consequences.

Punishment and Inequality in America

by Bruce Western

Confronting Confinement: A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons

by John J. Gibbons and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, co-chairs

Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy

by Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen

April 12, 2007 issue

Feature

David Kaiser

A Letter on Rape in Prisons

May 10, 2007 issue