poverty

A church in downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts is hosting two authors of a new book about strategies for ending poverty on Friday.

Andre Dubus III will be a featured speaker at the Provincetown Book Festival on Saturday, September 21st at 6 p.m. His latest novel is "Such Kindness."

Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized families in the United States. This is the story of their coming-of-age, which is beset by violence—the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical assault, the hypermasculine logic of the streets, and the drug trade. In Kensington, eighteenth birthdays are not rites of passage but statistical miracles. Nikhil Goyal's book is "Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty."

After an expanded credit took effect, child poverty hit a historic low of 5.2% a year ago. New Census data shows it has since rocketed to 12.4%. Doctors are seeing this play out in real time. Natasha Pernicka is the Executive Director at The Alliance for a Hunger Free NY and The Food Pantries for the Capital District. She joins us to discuss Child Poverty Rates.

The stories coming out about the gifts received by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, particularly from Harlan Crowe, have stirred some memories.

The New York Times recently published an article by Matthew Desmond, Why Poverty Persists in America, adapted from his new book, Poverty, by America. I spent a decade as a lawyer for poor people – as a storefront lawyer and manager in St. Louis and New York City and then running a clinic in West Virginia. I could have personally verified almost everything in Desmond’s article. What I couldn’t do is describe how to break the cycle of poverty.

In "Poverty, by America," acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor.

Goldie Taylor's debut memoir, "The Love You Save," shines a light on the strictures of race, class and gender in a post–Jim Crow America while offering a nuanced, empathetic portrait of a family in a pitched battle for its very soul.

Given unprecedented times, The Food Pantries for the Capital District is working to ensure that our local food pantries are prepared in the face of…

Mychal Denzel Smith’s last book, "Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching," was a powerful account of what it means being a young black man in…