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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The former Treasury secretary, whose new book is “The Yellow Pad,” says that Ken Auletta’s “The Underclass” convinced him that “trying to break the cycle of poverty through policy and ...