Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish.… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a challenge for… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
