Everyone should read this. 
Learn much more about:
-how poverty works
-historically
-present day
-how bad it can be: there are large numbers of Americans including children who suffer poverty as bad as many in other “poor nations” 
-how the impoverishment of others benefits you
-how the American welfare state helps the wealthy over the poor
-how we have created divisions between the poor and the wealthy and those in between
-how bad the effects of poverty are on the people 
-how we can end it 
-spoiler alert: it’s by stopping the giveaways to the wealthy, and instead helping the most poor