Modern societies redistribute income in countless ways. Some policies address poverty, but others redistribute income to the middle class and from richer to poorer across the income distribution.

In the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal responsibility. “The critical edge of 1963 was blunted in the legislation of 1964, as ...

The release of a supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau is being touted in the media as indicating the government is not doing enough to ameliorate poverty in the country. The number of ...

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones delivers the State of the City address on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Video courtesy City of St. Louis Metro columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent ...

How are people lifted out of poverty? Hans-Jörg Rudloff’s “lifting” (Obituaries, December 6) is achieved by markets steering “capital to all corners of the world”; the UK government’s lifting is ...

DECEMBER 2024 came to a close with hardly any harbinger of good tidings and very few reasons to hope for a better, more prosperous 2025. The big dampener was the last quarter survey on the related ...