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.

In Pope Leo's exhortation "Dilexi Te,' we hear the voice of a patient teacher reminding us of an inescapable truth at the ...

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 ...

“The worst discrimination which the poor suffer is the lack of spiritual care… we find it easier to turn a blind eye to the ...

Lifting 100,000 residents out of poverty should be lauded as a monumental achievement, not met with hand-wringing over what ...

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.

As the administration continues its efforts to restore our patent system, lost amid all the talk about discretionary denials, ...

Besides, America recently ran a very large natural experiment in dropping money on schools that, in a word, failed. During ...

A new cinematic canon may very well be emerging. Films like “One Battle After Another,” “Civil War” and “Eddington” have all ...

When the coronavirus hit Chile and abruptly cost Lorena Rodriguez her job, the 47-year-old nanny took a painful decision to pawn her jewelry - gifts from decades earlier - for cash.

Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits during the shutdown. The USDA just killed the long-running ...

Meet the Teach for America VP taking the helm as Nevada state superintendent. Read more from The Nevada Independent.