Why some people receiving federal benefits don’t consider themselves poor − even though poverty rates have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic
- Written by Sherri Lawson Clark, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Wake Forest University
For the past 25 years, my research as a cultural anthropologist has taken me into the homes and neighborhoods of people living in poverty in cities and rural communities throughout the U.S.
To better understand their day-to-day lives, I also have spent time in grocery stores, churches, nightclubs, parks and health clinics.
I’ve asked...
