A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains
In the hills of Central Appalachia, up winding, mountain roads, is a place where families face unthinkable living conditions. Isolated pockets here have three times the national poverty rate, an epidemic of drug abuse, and the shortest life span in ...
Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream - Why Poverty?
Number 740 Park Avenue is home to several New York billionaires. Just ten minutes north, in the South Bronx, is another Park Avenue, where more than half the population rely on government food stamps to survive. According to the American dream, any ...
Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty - Why Poverty?
Economist Jeffrey Sachs has pointed out that for most of history, “everybody in the world was poor.” As societies grew richer, they formed different attitudes toward poverty. The Greeks thought it played an essential role in society, whereas the...