The U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates among wealthy countries. Here’s a look at struggles kids living in ...

Watch the prologue from "Born Poor" — a documentary made over 14 years that follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through the teen years to young adulthood.

The gap between the rich and poor in America is huge and well-known. But what’s not very well known is just how large it is. According to the London School of Economics and Political Science, “The ...

Stacker used data from the Census Bureau's 2024 1-year American Community Survey to rank the poorest states by median household income.

The reality is that poverty is rising in the U.S., and more families live paycheck to paycheck, which increases the risk of eviction.

Over the past four decades, as inequality has grown exponentially for all Americans, the number of poor and low-income white people—66 million in 2018—has swelled higher than any other demographic.

Median home prices have risen by more than 85% in the past ten years, but being house-poor isn’t only a matter of what your ...

Older adults with the fewest financial resources die nine years earlier, on average, than those with the greatest wealth, according to a report by the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and the ...

Cuts to food assistance, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, will hit the nation's poor hard and its rural poor the hardest. According to the Food Research & Action Center, "While 11.1 percent of the U.S.

Pope Leo XIV's apostolic exhortation on love for the poor, Dilexi Te ("I Have Loved You"), released by the Vatican Oct. 9, ...