Poverty

In the end, America's principles of economic dynamism and individual freedom were able to beat the Soviet ideals of collectivization and central planning, and the world is better for it.

For whatever reason, one week ago today, Sheldon found himself on 122nd Street and Broadway, two blocks north of our campus and even closer to neighboring academic institutions. That’s where the incident happened, at 8:50 on an otherwise typical Friday evening.

“I know you all came here to hear me sing, right?” Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs joked in front of a packed Roone Arledge Auditorium crowd at an anti-poverty event he headlined with Grammy-winning recording artist John Legend Monday night.

If you are poor, you walk: to school, to collect water, to find firewood, to go to town, to work, to farm your field, to get crops to your family, to get any excess crops you may grow to a market, to buy goods from the store, to get health care, to go to funerals.