Poverty and Inequality are two of the most salient issues in society today. How does one of the wealthiest countries in the world fail to adequately provide for all of its citizens. The sources below look at the question of poverty and inequality and ways to measure and understand its influence in the public sphere.
How is poverty measured? https://www.irp.wisc.edu/resources/how-is-poverty-measured/
Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
Bureau of the Census https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/09/black-poverty-rate.html
Income https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2022/01/20/household-income-poverty-status-and-home-ownership-among-black-immigrants/
Unemployment https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000006
Homelessness https://endhomelessness.org/resources/sharable-graphics/racial-inequalities-homelessness-numbers/
Food insecurity https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/black-communities https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2014/spring/racial-food-deserts/
Health insurance https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/health-coverage-by-race-and-ethnicity/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/12/10/most-americans-say-government-has-a-responsibility-to-ensure-health-care-coverage/
Public housing https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/spring95/spring95.html
Poverty in Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Africa
Poverty in the Caribbean https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/caribbean/brief/solving-caribbean-poverty-starts-with-seeing-it-new-data-reveal-hidden-vulnerabilities