Many of America’s working poor are in jobs that pay less than previous jobs, and an overwhelming majority believes that people are more likely to fall from the middle class rather than rise into it.

A couple of Montana lawmakers seem to use the hard-working people as objects of scorn, but columnist Darrell Ehrlick says ...

It has often been said that the world’s aggregate poverty gap—the total monetary amount by which all poor people fall below the poverty line ... given that many households work in the informal sector ...

The British Government acted according to the principle of ‘laissez faire’. This was the belief that the Government should not be involved in issues of poverty and hardship. Involvement would ...