Nearly 10 million children were in poverty in 2023. It could become a key election issue.

Despite wage gains, lower-income families have been hit hard by inflation and the expiration of pandemic-era benefits.

After the pandemic, the gap between rich and poor has widened dramatically worldwide, and Norway and the United States are no exception. In the U.S., about one in five kids are growing up in families ...

Philadelphia’s poverty rate fell more than one percentage point between 2022 and 2023, marking the most significant year-over ...

The Basic Needs Giving Partnership recently announced their 2024 multi-year grant awards with $2.85 million awarded to 12 organizations across Northeast Wisconsin. These three-year grants support ...

A showdown between an Arizona tribe and the FBI was a turning point in the history of Indian Country, paving the way for the ...

Abbé Pierre campaigned for decades against homelessness and poverty. Revelations about his treatment of women have destroyed ...

A new report finds GOP policies would exacerbate hardship in order to give tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.

The American people deserve to hear from Vice President Kamala Harris about how she plans to rectify the failures of ...

California's supplemental poverty rate of 15.4% tops the nation, highlighting the state's persistent economic divide.

In 1959, 35.2% of people who were 65 and up were experiencing poverty – the highest rate of any age group. In 2023, only 9.7% of older Americans were in poverty, as indicated by the official rate, and ...

On a mid-August morning, Christopher Harrison stood in front of the shuttered Martin General Hospital recalling the day a year earlier when he snapped pictures as workers covered the facility's sign.