About 43 million people — or 12.9% of Americans — lived in poverty last year. That’s according to this week’s release of the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, a more comprehensive measure ...

The child poverty rate in the United States more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, according to new data on poverty, income, and health insurance from the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 12. A year ...

Holiday poverty is a growing concern that affects many families during the festive season. While the holidays are often associated with joy and celebration, for some, they bring significant financial ...

Woman's Day answers your most frequently asked questions. According to Australian charity Share the Dignity, one in five menstruating Australians have limited to no access to the necessary sanitary ...

Social scientist Christopher Sandy Jencks gave a lecture titled “The War On Poverty: Did We Give Up Too Soon?” on Monday afternoon. In the lecture, Jencks provided students with a history of America’s ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...

Robert Reich has been telling us for years that policymakers have the power to end—or increase—poverty. New Census data proves him right. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) leaves the Senate chamber with ...

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We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...

Fewer than 10 of the California Legislature’s 120 members are renters. So how can these elected officials possibly understand the plight of tenants under stress from rent hikes? That, in a nutshell, ...

The reality of how hard it is to stay housed in Santa Clara County, one of the most expensive counties in the nation, was on ...