Research: Poverty more common than most Americans realize, By Alfred Lubrano, October 27, 2014, Philadelphia Inquirer: “Many Americans view the poor as a permanent underclass of slackers who dodge work and skate through life on the taxpayer’s dime. But recent research shows the poor are anything but monolithic. And poverty is a lot more common experience than people think. More than 40 percent of Americans between ages 25 and 60 will be poor for at least a year, said Mark Rank, a professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty