Poverty, not the poor.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Brady, David
- Source
- Science Advances. 8/25/2023, Vol. 9 Issue 34, p1-17. 17p.
- Subject
- *RURAL poor
*TEENAGE boys
*POVERTY in the United States
*POOR people
*OLD age pensions
*POOR children
*POVERTY
- Language
- ISSN
- 2375-2548
The article focuses on shifting the perspective from individual-focused explanations of poverty to political explanations of systemic high poverty in the U.S. It challenges the idea that poverty is solely a result of personal moral, cultural, or biological inadequacies and suggests that understanding poverty requires a paradigmatic shift towards analyzing poverty as a systemic issue. It also defines poverty measurement and discusses the persistently high levels of poverty in the U.S.