David Brady

Aug 23, 2023 | science.org | Sarah Hoy |Josh Peters |Runzi Sun |David Brady

ReviewSOCIAL SCIENCES INTRODUCTIONThe historian Michael Katz (1) writes, “The idea that poverty is a problem of persons—that it results from moral, cultural, or biological inadequacies—has dominated discussions of poverty for well over two hundred years and given us the enduring idea of the undeserving poor.” Scholarship and public debate about American poverty have traditionally focused on contrasting the individual poor against the individual nonpoor.