A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a ...

The assessment, which surveyed 1,127 residents, will be used to guide policymaking and program design, the mayor said.

The 60th anniversary of a shocking uprising in Los Angeles, which foretold similar unrest in cities throughout the 1960s and ...

Gavin Newsom is pursuing what appears to be an image-building prelude to a 2028 presidential campaign and much of that effort ...

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social ...

It was 2016 when Christiane Kraetsch's life slowly began to fall apart. Kraetsch, 65, used to work as an educator at ...

A large-scale longitudinal study challenges the assumption that poverty amplifies the link between parental distress and ...

Our national poverty rate fell 42 percent during the War on Poverty, from 1964 to 1973. And that trend continues today: The poverty rate fell from 26 percent in 1967 to 16 percent in 2012 when ...

Margaret Talbot writes about “Poverty, by America,” a new book by Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Evicted.” ...