“Our entire safety net is designed to catch people at the very bottom, but it sets a trap for anyone trying to climb out. As ...
Americans’ incomes inched higher last year and fewer people slipped into poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual look at household wallets. Tuesday’s data showed Americans’ incomes ...
In preparation for the spring 2026 semester, all instructors who conduct a sponsored class project or capstone project in collaboration with an outside sponsor or provider of data (even if no funds ...
KYEGEGWA, Southwest Uganda — Economist Dean Karlan was perplexed. He'd come to a remote part of Uganda to check on a program he'd helped design to lift people out of extreme poverty. Only things weren ...
Dean Karlan (in blue shirt) meets with a group of refugees in southwest Uganda to hear about their experience with a program that offers loans to help them "graduate" from poverty. (Claire Harbage/NPR ...