The Frontline documentary 'Born Poor' follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through their ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem. A mother and son living in a Walmart parking lot in North Dakota in 2012.Credit...Eugene Richards Supported by ...

The average American leaves almost a third of hard-earned vacation days on the table every year-a fact that speaks volumes to a culture that has turned rest into a guilty pleasure, not a necessity.

A disturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40% of the population is obese ...

The United States is the ‘land of opportunities’ for those who have the skill and the discipline to achieve something big in life. According to the US Census Bureau 2022 data, the poverty rate in the ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: ...

In this article, we look at 25 states with the lowest poverty rates in America. You can skip our detailed analysis on poverty in the United States, and head over directly to the 10 States with the ...

Some states are having difficulty shaking off high poverty rates, a new study suggests. Between 1989 and 2019, 19.4 million people lived in areas of persistent poverty, according to a report by the US ...

The following information was released by the United States Census Bureau: The U.S. Census Bureau today announced that real median household income was $83,730 in 2024, not statistically different ...

Ending child poverty is within reach, UNICEF argues, because solutions exist. Meet some of the children and families who are ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The problem of poverty became more acute in many U.S. neighbourhoods in the Midwest and South over the last decade, threatening schools, safety and public health, while raising ...

“Books about poverty tend to be books about the poor,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond writes in “Poverty, by America” (Crown). That’s true whether the motivation is to blame the poor for their ...