Howard Bradley knows what equality looks like. The son of a nurse and a firefighter, he grew up in a neighborhood of Springfield, Tenn., characterized by what he calls “genteel poverty ...

Once the trap had been dealt with, by improvements in agricultural productivity and the opening up of American arable land, British society was well placed to exploit the opportunities for ...

I used to be an asshole - lessons in genteel poverty. Gillian Godsil illustrates the indignity of everyday poverty and the techniques she's acquired to exist on slender means ...