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Where are children more vulnerable to poverty in the EU?

Between 2023 and 2024, the percentage of children at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU slightly decreased from 24.8% to 24.2%. At the country level, Bulgaria reported the highest rates in ...
Novinite

Bulgaria Ranks Second in the EU for Working People At Risk of Poverty

According to the latest Eurostat data, 8.2% of people aged 18 and over who were employed or self-employed in the European Union in 2024 were at risk of poverty. The figures show that even having a job ...
Reason

Princeton's Matthew Desmond Gets Everything Wrong About Poverty's Root Causes

Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, a PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and a National Book Critics Circle award. His ...
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Rags, Riches, and Bootstraps: Beliefs about the Causes of Wealth and Poverty

The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 93-107 (15 pages) Specific beliefs pertaining to wealth and poverty emanate from metatheories about socioeconomic inequalities. As ...