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Poverty
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The Not-So-Great Professor: Jeffrey Sachs’ Incredible Failure to Eradicate Poverty in Africa
Jeffrey Sachs was certain he knew how to rid the world of poverty. He even said it would be easy. The world had other ideas.
Why Are Public Universities Failing Our Neediest Students?
Chasing prestige and battered by state funding cuts, many public colleges and universities with a historic responsibility to provide access to an affordable education have turned to “financial aid leveraging,” offering wealthy or high-scoring students discounts on tuition.
Why Is Zambia So Poor?
This landlocked country in Sub-Saharan Africa isn't a failed state in the traditional sense: There's no dictator, no child soldiers. But most of its 14 million people live on less than $1 per day. How did things get this way, and can they ever get better?
The Demolition of Brewster-Douglass and Our Abandonment of the Working Poor
It's more than just brick-and-mortar buildings that's crumbling in Detroit.
London Hosts the Olympics: How Success for People Is a Failure of Place
A living, breathing example of how we misunderstand the inequity of poverty.
The Social Life of Genes
Your DNA is not a blueprint. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your surroundings. Your neighbors, your family, your feelings of loneliness: They don't just get under your skin, they get into the control rooms of your cells. Inside the new social science of genetics.
Why the Impoverished Need to Move to the Cities With the Highest Housing Prices
On poverty traps and the paradoxes of migration.
Urban Islands of Poverty and Bowling With Strangers
Questioning our understanding of "gentrification" is a necessary first step toward helping people who are stuck in impoverished neighborhoods.
The Problem With Volunteer Tourism
While it might seem like a way for people to spend money and do some good, is it really the best way to enact any meaningful change?