Poverty Policy Links

Over the past 30 years, men have become more likely to earn low wages while women have become less likely

Here's some background (and part 2) on an experiment to pay the poor for certain behaviors ("conditional cash transfers") that had some success in Brazil and Mexico.

Here's an interesting graphic displaying the minimum wage versus the poverty level

Does failing to provide a child with breakfast make a parent negligent?

The US doesn't do very well on some measures of equality and prosperity and, by some measures, may have among the lowest income mobility of any advanced nation, though this differs by race, despite the fact that Americans believe we're among the highest and most equal