To increase empathy and help the public be better prepared to address the issue, local leaders are hosting a poverty ...

Over the last 50 years, the proportion of Americans living in poverty has remained virtually unchanged. In 2023, 11 percent ...

The government now faces an urgent decision on how to help millions of people living in fuel poverty in desperately cold ...

The land of the free is suffering from a "self-inflicted" injustice when it comes to poverty, experts say, as the rich are getting richer while thousands living without sufficient means die every year ...

The idea that a family earning six figures could still feel poor sounds absurd until you start tallying rent, child care, ...

Within the United States, education is commonly regarded as an equalizer to opportunity and upward mobility. In reality, there are countless impediments in the system that exclude low-income children ...

For years, state leaders have treated tax cuts as a shortcut to prosperity — but this policy isn’t working and it's leaving ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...

Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) heads to a vote in the Senate at the US Capitol. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of ...

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FOR MANY, the stereotypical image of American poverty still resembles the infamous Cabrini-Green Homes, a housing estate completed in 1962 near the heart of Chicago. It became overrun by gangs, drugs ...

The other team aren't the enemy - and supporters should think about that before weaponising poverty in the name of 'banter' ...