People walk into a New York City grocery store that accepts food stamps. The poverty rate declined last year, but participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known ...

The policy solutions to poverty are simple: redistribute capital ownership and expand the welfare state. Some people think poverty is what results when employers exploit workers on the bottom of the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio is among the states with the highest rates of young children affected by poverty, according to a recent study. The Birth Injury Lawyers Group, a nationwide network of ...

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Create more of it with a tax-deductible donation today. A record-high 581,000 Connecticut households, about 40%, couldn’t ...

One year after California voters passed Proposition 36, Los Angeles County Public Defender Ricardo Garcia has warned that the ...

Under investigation by a federal grand jury for having steered millions of dollars of state government anti-poverty grants to enterprises controlled by a friend, state Sen. Douglas McCrory, ...

Oklahoma House Speaker Kyle Hilbert has called for more investment in education to address poverty rates in the state.

New data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that 71,329 Vermonters lived below the federal poverty line in 2016 — roughly 10,000 more than in 2015. Vermont was the only state to see ...

Poverty has three causes. First is bad luck, like diseases and accidents that are not the fault of the sufferer. Second is bad personal conduct. Third is public policy that incentivizes bad conduct.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Across New York State, high poverty school districts stand to lose more amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to analysis by 7 On Your Side Investigates. With help from the ...