Struggling families looking for a safe, affordable place to live in America usually have but one choice: to rent from private landlords and fork over at least half their income to rent and utilities.

Strong families have been replaced by a stronger government. That's why DOGE is needed. New report says lower marriage rates are driving poverty, academic failure and violence.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty” in 1964, the nation didn’t have any method of counting the poor, or even a firm notion of how poverty should be ...

Why poverty is on the rise in U.S. suburbs 05:51. Millions of American families fell into poverty last year as the well of government-funded pandemic aid dried up and incomes shrank, according to ...

Edin and Shaefer later turned their paper into an acclaimed book, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America, that documented the lives of families mired in this kind of extreme poverty.

Although the total number of homeless families declined by 5% between 2018 and 2019, 52% of homeless families in 2019 were black. Those numbers remain virtually unchanged from 2018.

Housing expert Matthew Desmond argues poverty has stagnated in America, ... a family of four is defined by the government as officially in poverty in the US if they earn $30,000 or less.

The New York Times recently published an article by Matthew Desmond, Why Poverty Persists in America, adapted from his new book, Poverty, by America. I spent a decade as a lawyer for poor people ...

The Roots of Poverty in America. The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – nearly 40 million – live in poverty.

That rate captures the number of individuals and families below the poverty threshold, but it excludes the additional 26% of individuals living up to 200% of that cutoff.

Make America Healthy Again? More like “Make America Hungry Again.” In their stubborn pursuit of lowering taxes, especially for the rich, congressional Republicans are looking to cut spending on a ...

Rates of mortality, chronic conditions, obesity, and mental health have worsened and compare poorly with high-income peer ...