--- title: poverty | TIME description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/tag/poverty/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/tag/poverty/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: article twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # poverty ## poverty *  Nov 20, 2024 ## [Our Economy Needs More Than White Men](https://time.com/7177856/diversity-minorities-america-economic-future-purchasing-power/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by John Hope Bryant *  Oct 2, 2024 ## [Why Aisha Nyandoro Gives Mothers Cash](https://time.com/7026694/aisha-nyandoro-interview-time100-next-2024/) [U.S.](/section/us/) by Belinda Luscombe *  May 23, 2024 ## [The Demonization of Rural America](https://time.com/6980243/classism-rural-america-essay/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Bobi Conn *  Oct 4, 2023 ## [The U.S.'s Surprising Poverty Levels](https://time.com/6320076/american-poverty-levels-state-by-state/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Jeremy Ney *  Sep 12, 2023 ## [What's Behind the Spike in Child Poverty](https://time.com/6313242/child-poverty-rate-2022-census/) [U.S.](/section/us/) by Belinda Luscombe *  Aug 22, 2023 ## [Rural Black Opioid Addiction is Rising](https://time.com/6307190/the-face-of-rural-addiction-is-not-what-you-think/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Jerel Ezell *  Oct 5, 2022 ## [Why U.S. Income Inequality Hasn’t Risen in a Decade](https://time.com/6220111/income-inequality-us-2/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) by Nik Popli *  Jan 23, 2020 ## [Child Poverty Is a Moral Tragedy. This Policy Would Significantly Reduce the Number of Kids Affected](https://time.com/5770133/child-poverty-america/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Jeff Madrick *  Jan 16, 2020 ## [There Are Far Too Many 'Deaths of Despair' in the U.S. How Much Longer Will We Turn Our Backs on This Crisis?](https://time.com/5766180/tightrope-book-excerpt-working-class-america/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn *  Dec 6, 2019 ## [Trump Administration’s New Food Stamp Rule: What to Know](https://time.com/5744647/trump-food-stamps-rule/) [U.S.](/section/us/) by Jasmine Aguilera *  Jun 4, 2019 ## [Homelessness Jumps 16% in Los Angeles](https://time.com/5600995/los-angeles-homeless-increase/) [U.S.](/section/us/) by Jasmine Aguilera *  Jan 21, 2019 ## [Report: 26 People Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion](https://time.com/5508393/global-wealth-inequality-widens-oxfam/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Casey Quackenbush *  Jan 25, 2018 ## [Why GDP Is a Terrible Metric for Success and Wealth](https://time.com/5118026/gdp-metric-success-wealth/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by David Pilling *  Jan 10, 2018 ## [Better Sleep Can Protect Us From Trauma](https://time.com/5096767/better-sleep-can-protect-us-from-trauma/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by The Aspen Institute *  Dec 19, 2017 ## [Money Can’t Buy Happiness, But It Does Change How You Experience It](https://time.com/5071079/happiness-income/) [HEALTH](/section/health/) by Amanda MacMillan ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/"},"name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/poverty/","name":"poverty"}}]}] ```