Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the ...
The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration ...
As housing becomes increasingly costly, over 1 million Americans live without running water, even in affluent cities, new ...
The U.S. healthcare system turns patient suffering into more revenue: delays, hidden billing tricks, and skyrocketing costs reveal the shocking price of poor care.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore highlights significant investments in the ENOUGH Act, a state-led initiative to end child poverty, ...
Cash-poor Americans paid more than $39 billion in junk fees last year just to borrow money, according to a new report. SoLo, a community finance platform, released the findings Wednesday in its ...
These studies have yielded important insights, but they overlook one major reason why poverty in the U.S. is so much stickier than in peer countries: Americans born into poverty receive far less ...