The cover of "Poverty, by America." (Courtesy) This article is more than 2 years old. Two newly released books tell the same story of poverty: one, a novel.

In simple, yet stunning prose, A Voice Out of Poverty tells Haslam's beautiful story of resilience without shying away from the horrors of the environment that gave her the strength to overcome ...

His new book Poverty, By America, provides a provocative and compelling answer: It's because the rest of us benefit from it, and act to keep it that way.

What Desmond’s book so deftly shows is that poverty is not a personal failure. It’s the result of a society willing to turn a blind eye to its own inequities. — Shannon Carlin ...

87 million poor and low-wage people in the US were eligible to vote in the last presidential election, but some 30 million of them didn’t.

The book, titled Escaping Poverty's Grasp: The Environmental Foundations of Poverty Reduction, builds on WWF's long-standing strength of working at the local level in vulnerable places around the ...