K-shaped Economy (artwork: R Stephenson) I hope everyone gets a chance to read Nick Kristof's report on poverty: Meet the Americans Who Can't Afford Haircuts or Toilet Paper. Kristof puts a human face on the poverty that affects millions of our neighbors across this country. The people he interviews are struggling in ways many of us have never experienced. And as his reporting makes clear, people end up in poverty for many reasons—childhood trauma, low wages, unstable housin