Common Read 2024-25: Poverty, By America

From Greater Bergen Community Action

From the US Census, 2022.

Report from NJ Future, October 2020.

From MIT. Last updated February 14, 2024.

from Montclair State University, 2020.

Get an overview article, as well as Viewpoints (argumentative essays) and also news and magazines.

Pro/con arguments on whether Congress should raise the minimum wage. From 2021.

Pro/con arguments on whether the government should guarantee a minimum income. From 2019.

Pro/con arguments on adding more restrictions to the Food Stamp program. From 2020.

Coverage of poverty in America, including which policies help reduce it, and why it's so hard to achieve economic mobility.

Overview history of how America has grappled with poverty since its founding.

Covers history and context for Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty from 1962-1980.