Poverty & Unemployment

Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com and the Washington Post Three years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartooni...

At the end of 1795 Jeremy Bentham, the English Utilitarian philosopher and reformer, began to compose a far-reaching plan. He proposed to restructu...

Can entrepreneurship serve as a pathway out of poverty? Are the poor able to create ventures that can improve their economic circumstances and enha...

Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the mo...

At the end of 1795 Jeremy Bentham, the English Utilitarian philosopher and reformer, began to compose a far-reaching plan. He proposed to restructu...

The South Asia Economics Students' Meet is a unique platform created in 2003-04 to give young undergraduate students of Economics an opportunity to...

World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either...

In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner and the establi...

Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities   In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ...

Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homele...