AEI's Henry Wendt Scholar Nicholas Eberstadt wins the prestigious Bradley Prize

Poverty will always exist, compared to others, but we cannot deny that quality of life, on a global level, has improved.

Despite widespread hope that persistent poverty could be solved, all too many contemporary locales have managed to "achieve" records of long-term economic failure in our modern era.

Our official poverty measure is measuring the wrong thing.

Baby Seven Billion will have a greater chance to live to adulthood and receive an education—and a lower chance of suffering extreme material poverty—than a child at any previous juncture in history. This prospect, in and of itself, should be a cause for celebration.

Little has changed in the way the federal government measures poverty since 1965.

Little has changed in the way the federal government measures poverty since 1965.

Since its inception in 1965, America's federally established official poverty rate (OPR) has been the single most important statistic used by policymakers and concerned citizens to evaluate success or failure in the nation's efforts to alleviate poverty. In his newly released examination of this widely quoted measure, The Poverty of...