Topic: Poverty
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Brazilians Spend as Much as 26 Percent of Their Income to Ride the Bus
In the county's lopsided economy, public funds are propping up a public transportation system that the public can’t afford.
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The Big Fix
The Best Thing We Could Do About Inequality Is Universal Preschool
How we can reduce crime, increase economic mobility, boost college graduation rates, and give communities more tax revenue, all at the same time.
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Maps
5 Maps That Show How Divided America Really Is
Breaking down the country by income, inequality, poverty and education.
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Next Economy
Fixing a Neighborhood by Strengthening Its Social Ties
Taking small actions that give people a sense of pride in their neighborhood isn't a crazy starting point for uplifting a community like Lindsay Heights.
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Cover Story Showdown: 'Time' vs. 'New York Times Magazine' on Chicago
Two national magazines take on dissecting the city in the same week. Who wrote it best?
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Let Me Recycle That For You. Please.
In Buenos Aires, thousands of informal workers are ready to take on the task of improving the city's trash woes, if only the government would let them.
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Next Economy
An Amazingly Effective Support System for Single Moms
The Jeremiah Program knows what single moms need to finish college: housing and child care.
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Charts
Why Suburban Poverty Is Less Visible and More Insidious
Today's poor have a new problem: isolation.
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Charts
The Suburbanization of Poverty
Public perception has yet to catch up to the reality that the poor now live in the suburbs, too.
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Maps
Telling the Story of Inequality on Public Transit, With Maps
A mash-up of poverty rates and transit quality from San Francisco.
