How do you fix poverty? It’s a question many people have struggled to answer. Poverty experts Charles Murray and Melissa Boteach have very different views.Murray, of the American Enterprise Institute, believes that making the right personal decisions is the key to curbing poverty in America. Boteach, director of Half in Ten: The Campaign to Cut Poverty in Half in Ten Years, sees the problem of poverty differently. She said that progressives and conservatives agree that personal responsibility — mixed with public and private initiatives to lift people up — is a key strategy in fighting poverty.

Today’s presidential debate in Denver on domestic policy will hit six topics over the course of an hour and a half. Moderator Jim Lehrer of the PBS NewsHour can’t possibly get in all the questions on the minds of Americans. Here are seven questions that policy experts think should be asked, but probably won’t:

It’s time we give poverty, particularly child poverty, the attention it deserves. A good place to start would be the first presidential debate in Denver on October 3. Were Jim Lehrer to ask the candidates how they would address child poverty as president, it would kick off a long-overdue dialogue on poverty in America.

It’s a busy fall in Colorado, and our coalition there is preparing for several upcoming events next month.

The first presidential debate will happen in Denver on October 3, and Half in Ten supporters are using the #TalkPoverty…

On September 20, the U.S. Census Bureau released 2011 state- and district-level poverty data from the American Community Survey. This map below displays the data by congressional district.

On September 20, the U.S. Census Bureau released 2011 state- and district-level poverty data from the American Community Survey. This map below displays the data by state.

New Numbers on Poverty, Income, and Health Care. Today, the federal government released a raft of economic numbers on various topics, including the number of Americans in poverty, income, and the number of people without health insurance.

Melissa Boteach speaks on poverty’s role in American culture, education and the presidential campaign

The House should reject the farm bill, which asks low and middle-income Americans to foot the bill for deficit reduction while asking nothing of the wealthiest Americans.

The gap between rich and poor Americans grew in 2011 as the poverty rate remained at almost a two-decade high.