Editor Viqi Wagner has compiled several hard-hitting essays that peel apart the controversies of poverty. Across four chapters, readers will analyze whether poverty is a serious problem, what its causes are, how it can be reduced in the U.S., and how we should address global poverty. Essay sources include the U.S. Census Bureau, National Organization for Women, The World Bank, Arloc Sherman, Aviva Aron-Dine, and Charles A. Murray.