A maid bears witness
Stephanie Land's memoir reveals the intimacy and power of a housecleaner’s labor.
poverty
As Père Diegue surveyed the unfinished classroom, he remarked: “I’m beginning to understand why I am here.”
Making work a prerequisite for benefits is costly, inefficient, and ineffective.
The stubborn love and inflexible mercy of Dorothy Day
More than a memoir, Kate Hennessy's book about her grandmother is a participant biography written from the inside out.
Poverty of spirit, like any kind of poverty, is unenviable but survivable.
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Jesus isn’t pitting himself against poor people. He’s one of them.
Poverty's lifelong damage
Decades worth of data have proven that poverty shortens lives. Will anyone respond?
When mercy and justice meet
As we make laws and try to adjudicate justice, we often lose sight of the human faces affected.
Poverty and blame in Appalachia
More jobs would help, says J. D. Vance. So would a stronger work ethic.