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Stephen Shames (born 1947, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American photojournalist who for over 50 years has used his photography to raise awareness of social issues, with a particular focus on child poverty, solutions to child poverty, and race. He testified about child poverty to the United States Senate in 1986.
Mink, Gwendolyn, and Alice O'Connor, eds. Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy (ABC-CLIO 2004). Patterson, James T. (2000) America's Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (Harvard UP, 2000) online. Prasad, Monica (2012). The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty.
RA-FSA made 250,000 images of rural poverty. Fewer than half of those images survive and are housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The library has placed all 164,000 developed negatives online. [16] From these, some 77,000 different finished photographic prints were originally made for the press, plus 644 ...
Credit - Getty Images. A white family in Atlanta, Georgia today has 46 times as much wealth as a Black family; a racial wealth gap that is exactly the same as it was nationally in 1863 when ...
The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social ...
According to Forbes, the United States tops the world in number of billionaires, with 813 as of 2024. But the fact is 37.9 million Americans, or 11.5% of the population, live in poverty,...
Jacob Holdt (born 29 April 1947) is a Danish photographer, writer and lecturer.His mammoth work, American Pictures, gained international fame in 1977 for its effective photographic revelations about the hardships of America's lower classes.
As the U.S. poverty level sees its largest increase in history, a state by state comparison is revealing to understanding American poverty ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24 ...