{"id":778,"date":"2015-07-11T21:58:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T01:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njfac.wordpress.com\/?page_id=778"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:24:35","slug":"poverty-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/income-inequality-2\/poverty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economichardship.org\/category\/inequality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economic Hardship Reporting Project<\/a>, Inst for Policy Studies<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedwayalice.org\/in-the-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ALICE: A New Lens for Financial Hardship<\/a>, United Way<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donmoynihan.substack.com\/p\/what-can-be-learned-from-states-that\">What can be learned from states that made good faith efforts with work requirements?<\/a>\u00a0Lessons from New Hampshire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@mattdarling\">Matt Darling<\/a>\u00a0 8\/25<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/econofact.org\/work-and-poverty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/econofact.org\/work-and-poverty&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1729605032619000&amp;usg=AOvVaw20aneEPW8HCdI_vsfg_F8C\">Work and Poverty<\/a> Finnigan &amp; Searl, UCA, 11\/23<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2023\/05\/american-capitalism-breadlines-market-freedom-food-banks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">American Capitalism Has Produced Its Most Remarkable Innovation Yet: Breadlines <\/a>Savage, Jacobin 5\/23<\/p>\n<div class=\"layout layout--onecol layout--section--header\">\n<div class=\"layout--wrapper layout--wrapper--header\">\n<div class=\"layout__region layout__region--content\">\n<div class=\"block block-cbpp-core block-cbpp-formatted-title\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/press\/press-calls\/cbpp-press-call-tanf-policies-reflect-racist-legacy-of-cash-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TANF Policies Reflect Racist Legacy of Cash Assistance<\/a>, Floyd et al, CBPP, 8\/21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/by-the-numbers-income-and-poverty-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"title-presub\">By the Numbers<\/span><span class=\"colon\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span class=\"subtitle\">Income and Poverty, 2019, <span class=\"loop-meta-item loop-author\">Mokhiber &amp; Kandra<\/span>, EPI 9\/20<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"po-hr-cn__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2019\/12\/policy-feedback-working-class-bernie-sanders-gi-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You Can Have Means Testing or You Can Have Democracy<\/a>,<span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Gude Jacobin 12\/19<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/469040-income-for-poorest-americans-fell-faster-than-previously-thought-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Income for poorest Americans fell faster than previously thought: study the Hill, 11\/19<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bondeconomics.com\/2019\/10\/reserve-army-of-hungry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reserve Army of the Hungry:<\/a> &#8220;Is a Job at Starvation Level Wages a Job? In the industrialised countries in the post-war era, providing workers with the resources to allow for &#8220;food security&#8221; was not considered that big a deal. Hunger was an issue for the jobless. &#8230;.We now have people who are employed, yet need to lean on assistance &#8212; either from charities, or governments &#8212; to get adequate nutrition.&#8221; 10\/19<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2637142527po-hr-cn__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2019\/09\/medicare-for-all-poverty-out-of-pocket-expenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Medicare for All Would Cut Poverty by Over 20 Percent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, Bruenig, Jacobin 9\/19<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"yiv2637142527po-hr-cn__contributors\">\n<dl class=\"yiv2637142527po-hr-cn__authors\">\n<dt class=\"yiv2637142527po-hr-cn__byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/starving-seniors-how-america-fails-to-feed-its-aging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging<\/a>,<span class=\"byline\"> Ungar &amp; Lieberman 9\/<\/span><time datetime=\"2019-09-03T05:00:15-04:00\">19<\/time><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"small-12 medium-10 medium-offset-1 large-8 large-offset-2 xlarge-7 cell article__title article__title--main u-mb-se\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/onpoint\/the-myth-of-welfare-dependency-by-rema-hanna-2019-08\">The Myth of Welfare Dependency<\/a>, Hanna, Project Syndicate 8\/19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ips-dc.org\/report-moral-budget-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poor People\u2019s Moral Budget: Everybody Has the Right to Live<\/a>, Barnes et al, PPC &amp; IPS 6\/19<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-title speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/17\/news\/economy\/us-middle-class-basics-study\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Almost half of US families can&#8217;t afford basics like rent and food,<\/a> Luhby, CNN 5\/19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlouisfed.org\/publications\/regional-economist\/first-quarter-2019\/unequal-recovery-measuring-financial-distress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Unequal Recovery: Measuring Financial Distress by ZIP Code<\/a>, Mather &amp; Sanchez, FRB of SL, Q1, 2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3226574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Graying of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout from Life in a Risk Society<\/a>, Thorne et al, SSR 8\/18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/health-human-services\/gov-homeless-shelter-car.html\">&#8216;It&#8217;s the New Form of Affordable Housing&#8217;<\/a>: More People Are Living in Their Cars, Quinn, Governing 7\/18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-dickensian-return-of-debtors-prisons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Dickensian Return of Debtors\u2019 Prisons<\/a>, King, Am. Conservative, 7\/18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/blog\/176447\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wages of Poverty in America<\/a>, Menon, TomDispatch 7\/18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voxeu.org\/article\/alongside-rising-top-incomes-level-living-america-s-poorest-has-fallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alongside rising top incomes, the level of living of America\u2019s poorest has fallen<\/a>, Ravallion et al, Vox 6\/18<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"https:\/\/talkpoverty.org\/2018\/06\/01\/un-just-published-scathing-indictment-us-poverty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The UN Just Published a Scathing Indictment of US Poverty<\/a>, Slevin, Talk Poverty 6\/1<time class=\"posted\" datetime=\"2018-06-01T17:42:36+00:00\">8<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-hiltzik-antipoverty-20180507-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New evidence shows that our anti-poverty programs, especially Social Security, work well<\/a>, Hiltzik, LA Times 5\/18<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creditslips.org\/creditslips\/2018\/02\/peoples-pre-bankruptcy-struggles-new-paper-from-consumer-bankruptcy-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People\u2019s Pre-Bankruptcy Struggles,<\/a> Consumer Bankruptcy Project 2\/18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsfjournal.org\/content\/4\/3\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-poverty Policy Innovations<\/a>: New Proposals for Addressing Poverty in the United States, Berger et al, Russell Sage, 2\/18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230330085749\/http:\/\/neweconomicperspectives.org\/2017\/12\/the-new-poverty.html\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Poverty<\/a>, Alt, NEP 12\/17<\/p>\n<p class=\"aolmail_article-headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/144544\/deadbeat-democrats-bill-clinton-set-stage-gop-war-poor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Deadbeat Democrats<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">How Bill Clinton set the stage for the GOP&#8217;s war on the poor<\/span><\/a>, Covert, New Republic 9\/17<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattbruenig.com\/2017\/07\/31\/the-success-sequence-is-about-cultural-beefs-not-poverty\/\">The Success Sequence Is About Cultural Beefs Not Poverty<\/a>, Bruenig 8\/17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\/2017\/07\/stop-telling-poor-folks-what-to-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">If You\u2019ve Never Lived In Poverty, Stop Telling Poor People What They Should Do<\/a>,<span class=\"entry-author\"><span class=\"entry-author-name\"> Olsen, Everyday Feminism 7\/17<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/reports\/working-poor\/2015\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Profile of the Working Poor 2015<\/a>, BLS 4\/17<\/p>\n<p class=\"contentHeader__title--3ttNf\">Basic Income: A Sellout of the American Dream, Freedman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/601499\/basic-income-a-sellout-of-the-american-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MIT Technology Rev 6\/16<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"headline\" class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/19\/business\/economy\/giving-every-child-a-monthly-check-for-an-even-start.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giving Every Child a Monthly Check for an Even Start<\/a>, Porter, NYT 10\/16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2017\/income-povery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the US: 2016<\/a>, 9\/16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/04\/total-inequality\/476238\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Total Inequality: the financial, psychological, and cultural disadvantages<\/a> that come with poverty<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over 50 million Americans live in what the Economic Innovation Group calls <a href=\"http:\/\/eig.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-Distressed-Communities-Index-Report.pdf\">\u201cdistressed communities\u201d<\/a>\u2014zip codes where over 55% of the population is unemployed. &#8230; over half are in the South, defined generously by the census as the region stretching from Maryland and Delaware to Oklahoma and Texas. The rest tend to live in Midwest rust belt cities that have long suffered from economic decline&#8230;.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/672589\/geography-is-making-americas-uneven-economic-recovery-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Geography is making America\u2019s uneven economic recovery worse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2014\/01\/07\/the-war-on-poverty-at-50\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The War on Poverty at 50<\/a>, O&#8217;Connor, Consortium 1\/14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldhunger.org\/hunger-in-america-united-states-hunger-poverty-facts-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunger in America<\/a>, WHY<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialeurope.eu\/why-the-universal-basic-income-is-not-the-best-public-intervention-to-reduce-poverty-or-income-inequality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why The Universal Basic Income Is Not The Best Public Intervention To Reduce Poverty or Income Inequality<\/a>, <span class=\"entry-author\"><span class=\"entry-author-name\">Navarro<\/span><\/span> 5\/<time class=\"entry-time\" datetime=\"2016-05-24T08:00:30+00:00\">16<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"report-page-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/poverty-and-opportunity\/commentary-universal-basic-income-may-sound-attractive-but-if-it-occurred\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Universal Basic Income May Sound Attractive But, If It Occurred, Would Likelier Increase Poverty Than Reduce It, <\/a>Greenstein CBPP 5\/16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/triplecrisis.com\/no-country-for-old-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No Country for Old People<\/a>, Bacon, D &amp; S, 4\/16<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-cover-content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-cover-content\">\n<p data-pb-field=\"customFields.web_headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/04\/the-end-of-welfare-as-we-know-it\/476322\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The End of Welfare as We Know It: America\u2019s once-robust safety net is no more<\/a>, Atlantic 4\/16<\/p>\n<p data-pb-field=\"customFields.web_headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/04\/01\/why-tens-of-thousands-of-americas-poorest-people-just-lost-their-food-stamps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The controversial reason tens of thousands of people just lost their food stamps [<\/a>Clinton welfare &#8220;reform&#8221;], Wash. Post 4\/16<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkpoverty.org\/2016\/03\/17\/how-to-fight-poverty-through-full-employment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Fight Poverty Through Full Employment<\/a>, Baker, 3\/16<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/war-poor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The War on the Poor<\/a>, Edelman, TAP 12\/15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ips-dc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IPS-The-Poor-Get-Prison-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Poor Get Prison: The Criminalization of Poverty<\/a>, IPS 3\/15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogressaction.org\/issues\/poverty\/report\/2014\/11\/17\/101468\/building-local-momentum-for-national-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building Local Momentum for National Change<\/a>: Half in Ten Annual Poverty and Inequality Indicators Report 11\/14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/socialwork.columbia.edu\/news\/new-study-shows-crucial-role-of-safety-net-in-lowering-u-s-poverty-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crucial Role of Safety Net in Lowering U.S. Poverty Rates <\/a>Wimer et al, 12\/13<\/p>\n<div class=\"cbpp-mixed-pane panel-pane pane-node-title\">\n<div class=\"inner pane-inner inside\">\n<p class=\"report-page-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/various-supports-for-low-income-families-reduce-poverty-and-have-long-term-positive-effects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Various Supports for Low-Income Families Reduce Poverty a<\/a>nd Have Long-Term Positive Effects On Families and Children, Sherman et al, \u00a0CBPP 7\/13<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/npc.umich.edu\/publications\/working_papers\/?publication_id=255&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rising Extreme Poverty in the United States and the Response of Federal Means-Tested Transfer Programs<\/a>, Shaefer &amp; Edin 5\/13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/chart-book-tanf-at-18?fa=view&amp;id=3566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Well Does TANF Proide Income Support for Poor Families?<\/a> CBPP 8\/12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Inst for Policy Studies ALICE: A New Lens for Financial Hardship, United Way What can be learned from states that made good faith efforts with work requirements?\u00a0Lessons from New Hampshire\u00a0Matt Darling\u00a0 8\/25 Work and Poverty Finnigan &amp; Searl, UCA, 11\/23 American Capitalism Has Produced Its Most Remarkable Innovation Yet: Breadlines Savage,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/income-inequality-2\/poverty-2\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poverty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":773,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14751,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions\/14751"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}