The median household income in Jackson is $42,848 compared to $64,004 countywide, with residents citing lack of living-wage ...

The percentage of children living in poverty in New Brunswick remains “alarmingly high,” according to a report released by ...

“You're at 27.1 per cent while the national average is 18.3,” said Kimberly Dreaddy, a member of Campaign 2000.

Advocates are calling for change after the latest data on material hardship showed the statistics had not changed compared to the year prior.

From vaping to opioids to poverty to declining mental health, Hamilton kids will be a priority for public health over the ...

We don’t have a good grasp on how many people live without electricity. Official estimates place the number of people without ...

According to new data from the Texas Comptroller's Office, 71% of those who have applied are from low or middle income ...

Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty line than any other program in the United States. Without Social Security, 23 ...

The deepening economic crisis has hit children the hardest. While one in three children is at risk of poverty, two million children live in conditions of deep poverty. 950,000 children are working, ...

Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is officially classified as poor.

Trying to fix the retirement program is infeasible. Better to find new ways of achieving its goals.

In 1988 President Ronald Reagan argued that “the federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Thomas Sowell, a 95-year-old economist at the Hoover Institution and social-media ...