STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The poverty rate across New York City fell slightly over the past year, but despite the overall ...

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates shows that 54,767 of the 492,905 ...

Houston has a higher percentage of residents living in poverty among the largest cities in the United States, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. One out of five residents — ...

The U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates among wealthy nations. Here’s a look at some struggles kids living in poverty face. Kaylie, pictured in the 2012 documentary “Poor Kids” and the ...

Experts say much will depend on whether the expanded credits continue. There were times throughout the COVID-19 pandemic when Maeghan Murdock worried about how her family -- which includes a newborn - ...

Now and then, you stumble upon a metric so obviously broken that it forces you to re-evaluate everything you thought you knew ...

Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as flophouses. Then in 2017, she met 11-year-old Mikal in a hotel lobby.

BOB GARFIELD: This is On the Media. I’m Bob Garfield. BROOKE GLADSTONE: And I’m Brooke Gladstone. Now starts the final lap in our poverty tour, which begins as we did, with the Virgil of our ...

Over 2.5 million American grandparents have traded retirement dreams for full-time parenting duties. The opioid crisis and ...