Poverty

A November 2013 New York Post story about the Census Bureau providing false figures in the weeks before the 2012 general election was disturbing. (Photo: ThinkStock)

Beltway Confidential

Are government statistics deteriorating?

April 11, 2014 12:00 am

News

UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems

Seth Borenstein -

March 31, 2014 5:25 am

FILE- In this Feb. 25, 2014 file photo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference at P.S. 130 in New York. As state lawmakers settle in on a plan to fund pre-kindergarten in New York City, de Blasio is beginning to focus on other items in his progressive agenda. De Blasio will set his sights on massively expanding affordable housing, hiking wages for the working class and overhauling the city's recovery from Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Business

NYC mayor’s next big push: affordable housing

Jonathan Lemire -

March 30, 2014 12:20 pm

Columnists

It’s not about race — it’s about how liberalism doesn’t solve poverty

Star Parker -

March 29, 2014 12:00 am

News

Argentina cricket program targets slum poverty

Paul Byrne -

March 24, 2014 8:13 pm

In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at Stony Brook University, students Ruby Escalera-Nater and Will Addison fill a bag of food to give to guests at the college's recently opened food pantry. Officials say there are a growing number of food pantries opening on college campuses across the country to assist students contending with rising education costs.(AP Photo/Frank Eltman)

Business

Food pantries on the rise at US college campuses

Frank Eltman -

March 15, 2014 4:14 pm

Paul Ryan, while appearing Wednesday on Bill Bennett's

Congressional Black Caucus condemns Paul Ryan’s poverty comments

Sean Lengell -

March 14, 2014 4:00 am

Advocates at a rally to raise the minimum wage. AP Photo

Economy

More than 500 economists slam minimum wage hike as a jobs killer

Paul Bedard -

March 12, 2014 4:00 am

Columnists

Lower crime now may be a fruit of welfare reform 20 years ago

Michael Barone -

March 12, 2014 12:00 am

To solve the challenges before our nation, we need an all-hands approach that unleashes the creativity and resources of individual Americans, community groups, churches, small businesses, state and local governments, and more, not just the federal government. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Columnists

21st-century politics: A minus-sum game where everybody loses

Scott Rasmussen -

February 27, 2014 5:00 am

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Tag: Poverty

Are government statistics deteriorating?

UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems

NYC mayor’s next big push: affordable housing

It’s not about race — it’s about how liberalism doesn’t solve poverty

Argentina cricket program targets slum poverty

Food pantries on the rise at US college campuses

Congressional Black Caucus condemns Paul Ryan’s poverty comments

More than 500 economists slam minimum wage hike as a jobs killer

Lower crime now may be a fruit of welfare reform 20 years ago

21st-century politics: A minus-sum game where everybody loses

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