Hey fellow business owners, Let’s get real—running a business is tough. But here’s the thing: your business has the power to do so much more than make a profit. It can change lives. Poverty is a ma…

Cleveland's child poverty rate is among the worst in the nation. And conditions aren't much better for adults.

The term "culture of poverty" was introduced by Oscar Lewis in his seminal 1959 book Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty. (If you don’t know about Lewis, 1914~1970, as I didn’t until very recently, he was the son of a Jewish rabbi, the husband of Abraham Maslow’s sister, and a noted anthropologist and university professor.) Michael Harrington used that same term in "Our Fifty Million Poor," a piece he wrote for the July 1959 issue of Commentary, the monthly magazine…

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What is the definition of povertyto a man who has never seen a friend on the cornerof fifth and sixth, shivering on the doorstepof a woman who does not bother to ask his name.What does it mean to a man who never has to wonderwhat it is like to dump change on the counterof the…

A new research has revealed that children from low-income backgrounds, where parents have a low level of education, have weaker brain act...

Poverty. The worst kind of violence.