When the building was threatened with destruction, in 2007, Professor Black and a charity devoted to Georgian-era architecture tried to get it preserved. They initially failed, but the wrecking ball […]
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When the building was threatened with destruction, in 2007, Professor Black and a charity devoted to Georgian-era architecture tried to get it preserved. They initially failed, but the wrecking ball […]
Higher Food Prices Hit the Poor and Those Who Help Them
The recent trend reverses a decade of relatively low food price inflation, Mr. Swanson added, a period in which many Americans got used to buying ample supplies of beef, chicken, […]
Poverty in U.S. Declined Thanks to Government Aid, Census Report Shows
The share of people living in poverty in the United States fell to a record low last year as an enormous government relief effort helped offset the worst economic contraction […]
Why $46 Billion Couldn’t Prevent an Eviction Crisis
Over the past several months, the White House and Treasury Department have been racing to deal with the program’s problems, repeatedly revising guidelines to allow tenants to receive payouts with […]
Why the Taliban Desperately Need Cash to Run Afghanistan
The system functions on the premise that people want to send equivalent amounts of money between two locations. Loans and transfers are recorded on ledgers, but money doesn’t have to […]
A Rural-Urban Broadband Divide, but Not the One You Think Of
Whom should the government help get superfast internet access?The question is not addressed directly in President Biden’s multibillion-dollar infrastructure plan, which devotes tens of billions of dollars to expanding access […]
‘We Were Left With Nothing.’ Argentina’s Misery Deepens in the Pandemic.
Before the pandemic, Carla Huanca and her family were making modest but meaningful improvements to their cramped apartment in the slums of Buenos Aires.She was working as a hairstylist. Her […]
Covid-19 Pushes India’s Middle Class Toward Poverty
Anil G. Kumar, a civil engineer, was one of them. Around this time last year, he and his family were about to buy a two-bedroom apartment. But when last year’s […]
Two Decades After the ‘End of Welfare,’ Democrats Are Changing Direction
WASHINGTON — A quarter-century ago, a Democratic president celebrated “the end of welfare as we know it,” challenging the poor to exercise “independence” and espousing balanced budgets and smaller government.The […]