Food Collectives and non-profits feed the hungry. Some people want to make it illegal. Elías Villoro

books Pulitzer prize winner Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America" is about consumption, exploitation and how money trickles up Elías Villoro

education Minnesota rep prioritizes son's taste buds over access to nutritious meals for thousands of students Mark Frauenfelder

los angeles Homelessness has killed five times as many Angelenos as murder Thom Dunn

new york city Check out the flophouses and destitution of New York City's Bowery in 1956 Mark Frauenfelder

new york city This 1970 documentary shows dirty old New York at its meanest and most decrepit Mark Frauenfelder

Community A beautiful new village for people dealing with homelessness has popped up beneath a bridge in West Oakland Thom Dunn

poverty How UBI is helping farmers deal with poverty and pandemic life at the same time Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Raising money for a UBI fund that helps families affected COVID-19 Thom Dunn

News Social security for all — for now Maureen Herman

politics Trump to kick 700,000 Americans off food stamps just in time for holiday cruelty display Xeni Jardin

poverty Minnesota high school threw away hot lunches for students with over $15 of lunch debt Mark Frauenfelder

philosophy How America's hatred of poor people ties back to Puritan work ethic Thom Dunn

education NJ school district bans indebted students from prom and field trips, refuses offer to pay off lunch debt Cory Doctorow

race Pew: 26% of US adults who earn under $30K/year are 'smartphone only' internet users Xeni Jardin

health Obamacare study: 25% decline in home delinquencies among newly insured poor people Cory Doctorow

uk UN poverty envoy calls UK poverty a "political choice" that inflicted "great misery" Cory Doctorow

medicine Médecins Sans Frontières is on the front lines of the Mexican drug war Séamus Bellamy

video Brazil's ambitious anti-poverty initiative engages its youngest citizens Andrea James