- Capitalism and Poverty https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/09/poverty-rate-census-capitalism-bruenig 3 comments politics
- The Expanding World of Poverty Capitalism http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/opinion/thomas-edsall-the-expanding-world-of-poverty-capitalism.html?_r=0 14 comments politics
- The Expanding World of Poverty Capitalism http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/opinion/thomas-edsall-the-expanding-world-of-poverty-capitalism.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/opinion/thomas-edsall-the-expanding-world-of-poverty-capitalism.html 32 comments politics
- Bono: “Capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid” http://blog.independent.org/2013/08/12/bono-capitalism-takes-more-people-out-of-poverty-than-aid/ 84 comments worldnews
- Bono: “Capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid” http://blog.independent.org/2013/08/12/bono-capitalism-takes-more-people-out-of-poverty-than-aid/ 10 comments politics
- Capitalism based on free market only solution to alleviate poverty: Murthy https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/capitalism-based-on-free-market-only-solution-to-alleviate-poverty-murthy-123112901071_1.html 305 comments india
- India overtakes Nigeria as poverty capital https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/nigeria-is-no-longer-the-poverty-capital-of-the-world-but-still-has-over-70-million/2txm7g3 43 comments india
- A University textbook teaches that American exceptionalism has “racist overtones" and that capitalism is to blame for "the persistence of poverty." http://www.campusreform.org/?id=8297 3 comments politics
- One in three Germans say capitalism to blame for poverty, hunger http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-germany-capitalism-iduskbn0ls1ai20150224 104 comments worldnews
- Claims That Capitalism Is Eradicating Global Poverty Are Wildly Misleading https://jacobin.com/2022/09/capitalism-global-poverty-income-inequality-wealth-tax 211 comments economy
- Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Praises Capitalism, Calls Socialism ‘Trickle-Up Poverty’ https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/30/whole-foods-ceo-john-mackey-capitalism-socialism-trickle-up-poverty/ 4 comments economy
- The Bronx, long a symbol of American poverty, is now New York City’s coronavirus capital https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/bronx-new-york-yankee-stadium-coronavirus/2020/04/21/3b38b460-8182-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html 5 comments politics
- Tethered to Corporate Capitalism, Neither Party Willing to Eradicate Poverty http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/26/tethered-corporate-capitalism-neither-party-willing-eradicate-poverty 7 comments politics
- Arguman.org - Socialism is more effective at poverty reduction and ensuring the meeting of basic needs than capitalism http://en.arguman.org/socialism-is-more-effective-at-poverty-reduction-and-ensuring-the-meeting-of-basic-needs-than-capitalism 11 comments politics
- Study: Extreme poverty is not the “natural” condition of humanity, and was little affected by the rise of capitalism https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169#b0680 6 comments economy
- Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the 16th century https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0305750X22002169?originCreation=20220926203009&originRegion=us-east-1&token=9D923FF8E3E720B770DA22D5D6FF8A239181676BF7C2E35033F69DADAB37DAC43AB7CB71A75E93775F7DC5D7706A0573 6 comments economics
- Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169?via%3Dihub= 85 comments economics
- Capitalism is Dead: American Poverty To Go Mainstream As 80% Predicted To Feel Economic Insecurity http://dangerousminds.net/comments/capitalism_is_dead_american_poverty_to_go_mainstream 8 comments politics
- If you look at poverty from the broad perspective of international and historical comparisons, the solution to poverty is decentralized entrepreneurial activity under capitalism. http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=050207a 3 comments reddit.com
- The common notion that extreme poverty is the "natural" condition of humanity and only declined with the rise of capitalism is based on false data, according to a new study. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169#b0680 788 comments science
- The Great Capitalist Lie: Why People Are Still Suffering and Living in Poverty - As long as capitalism reigns supreme, poverty, hunger, and inequality will not disappear. People will keep dying. https://antoniomelonio.medium.com/the-great-capitalist-lie-5b3635a016e5 3 comments internationalpolitics
- A “big push” to lift people out of poverty. A field experiment in India led by MIT antipoverty researchers has produced a striking result: A one-time boost of capital improves the condition of the very poor even a decade later. https://news.mit.edu/2021/tup-people-poverty-decade-1222 5 comments india
- Give them the boot: $530 distressed sneakers accused of fetishizing poverty | Italian brand under fire as critics call selling expensive shoes that appear to be falling apart ‘peak capitalism’ https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/sep/21/golden-goose-distressed-sneakers-poverty-backlash 14 comments worldnews
- Give them the boot: $530 distressed sneakers accused of fetishizing poverty - Italian brand under fire as critics call selling expensive shoes that appear to be falling apart ‘peak capitalism’ https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/sep/21/golden-goose-distressed-sneakers-poverty-backlash?cmp=share_androidapp_%ED%81%B4%EB%A6%BD%EB%B3%B4%EB%93%9C%EC%97%90_%EB%B3%B5%EC%82%AC 19 comments worldnews
- Right wingers claim Capitalism ended poverty in the West so inequality can't be a problem. It's a lie. The USA is facing extreme poverty. Not relative poverty. Millions of americans are experiencing extreme poverty you see in third world countries. We can no longer hide from this. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-states.html?action=click&contentcollection=business%20day&module=trending&version=full&region=marginalia&pgtype=article 54 comments economy
- The world can't afford another financial crash -- it could destroy capitalism as we know it: "A new economic crisis would trigger a political backlash in Britain, Europe and the United States which could drag us all down into poverty" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/12151115/the-world-cant-afford-another-financial-crash-it-could-destroy-capitalism-as-we-know-it.html 4 comments business
- One in three Germans say capitalism to blame for poverty, hunger | The survey found that more than 60 percent of Germans believe there is no genuine democracy in their country because industry has too much political influence and that the voice of the voters plays only a subordinate role. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-germany-capitalism-iduskbn0ls1ai20150224 2389 comments worldnews
- One in three Germans say capitalism to blame for poverty, hunger; decry influence of industry, and may believe democracy to be impossible due to that influence http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-germany-capitalism-iduskbn0ls1ai20150224?feedtype=rss&feedname=worldnews 3 comments economy
- In Russia the change from communism to capitalism was a complete disaster. Poverty increased from 2% to over 40% of the population. Most russians were better off under communism (Joseph Stiglitz) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/09/russia.artsandhumanities 24 comments europe
- Pope attacks tyranny of markets, urges renewal in key document: Pope Francis called for renewal of the Roman Catholic Church and attacked unfettered capitalism as "a new tyranny", urging global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality in the first major work he has authored alone as pontiff. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/26/uk-pope-document-idukbre9ap0eo20131126 1205 comments worldnews
- The Upward Spiral of Capitalism and the End of Poverty. When creativity and entrepreneurship are unleashed, and when new innovations are introduced to an open marketplace, there are no limits to human achievement. http://bigthink.com/videos/the-upward-spiral-of-capitalism-and-the-end-of-poverty 12 comments politics
- Antimonopolists were utopian capitalists who had once believed that ideally capitalism and fair competition would yield a society akin to Lincoln’s. They were bent on reforming capitalism so that great wealth and poverty would once again become anomalies in American life. http://www.bostonreview.net/br38.1/richard_white_gilded_age_wealth_inequality.php 18 comments history
- Oil was supposed to catapult Ecuador out of poverty. Instead it resulted in immeasurable ecological damage, social disruption, assassinations and coups, overwhelming debt, and an economy that is radically skewed to favor the rich. Predatory capitalism, its sole goal to maximize corporate profits. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/25-3 55 comments worldnews
- Oil was supposed to catapult Ecuador out of poverty. Instead it resulted in immeasurable ecological damage, social disruption, assassinations and coups, overwhelming debt, and an economy that is radically skewed to favor the rich. Predatory capitalism, its sole goal to maximize corporate profits. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/25-3 27 comments politics
- The Implosion of Capitalism:Let the masses be thrust into extreme poverty and left without jobs while the elites, drunk on hedonism, accumulate vast fortunes through exploitation, speculation, fraud and theft. http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8808-when-civilizations-die 53 comments politics
- WSWS: "The census bureau figures that came out Tuesday, showing the largest number of Americans living in poverty since records began in 1959, are a damning indictment of American capitalism and the entire political system." http://wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/pers-s15.shtml 4 comments politics
- Greek crisis forces thousands of Athenians into rural migration; debt, unemployment and poverty is causing mass unrest and thousands to seek a cheaper lifestyle outside the capital. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/greek-crisis-athens-rural-migration?? 2 comments worldnews
- Greek crisis forces thousands of Athenians into rural migration. Debt, unemployment and poverty is causing mass unrest and thousands to seek a cheaper lifestyle outside the capital http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/greek-crisis-athens-rural-migration 30 comments worldnews
- Mubarak's Military Dictatorship Expanded Crony Capitalism till the ruling class were millionaires while 40% of the Egyptian people lived in poverty. http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&itemid=74&jumival=6254 18 comments worldnews
- UN “poverty summit” exposes failure of world capitalism:The “poverty summit” that concluded at the United Nations Wednesday served to expose capitalism’s responsibility for the poverty and hunger confronting billions of people across the planet http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/pers-s23.shtml 4 comments worldnews