We’re using 1960s guidance to measure poverty in 2022 by Lyndon Haviland, opinion contributor - 11/08/22 2:30 PM ET ...

The Great Society’s Model Cities Program wasn’t perfect. But it offered a vision of what democratic, community-based planning could look like.

As policymakers once again debate how to respond to deepening inequality and a lack of affordable housing, the lost promise of Model Cities offers vital lessons.

But throughout the 1950s and 1960s, in most years, the minimum wage would not have lifted a family of three out of poverty and was never enough for a family of four.

Economist-historian Sanjeev Sanyal criticized Indian textbooks for perpetuating outdated narratives and exaggerating poverty. On X, he argued that school books unfairly depict India in an ...

In cities across the U.S., the housing crisis has reached a breaking point. Rents are skyrocketing, homelessness is rising and working-class neighborhoods are threatened by displacement. These ...

Then the political winds shifted. Though designed during the optimism of the mid-1960s, the program started being implemented under President Richard Nixon in 1969.

Article continues below this ad Then the political winds shifted. Though designed during the optimism of the mid-1960s, the program started being implemented under President Richard Nixon in 1969.