Poverty led to social problems across America. Dr Martin Luther King Jnr blamed poverty as a cause of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles in 1965.

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration ...

As housing becomes increasingly costly, over 1 million Americans live without running water, even in affluent cities, new ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore highlights significant investments in the ENOUGH Act, a state-led initiative to end child poverty, ...

Now, the federal poverty line is the same no matter where you live. Rep. Mikie Sherrill introduced a bill to require regional ...

Disrupting the cycle of poverty isn’t about focusing on one person in the family. It’s about centering the entire family and building a rich, supportive, and deeply responsive community that can hold ...

"We are rethinking our approach to poverty to create a better Rockford, purposefully moving from intention to impact," writes ...

Economic growth alone will not be enough to help the millions of children living in poverty, according to a damning report.

(The Center Square) – Low-income households are becoming increasingly dependent on government welfare and entitlement programs rather than work paychecks, according to a new report from the ...

The team believe this is likely to be an underestimate of the true number because of limitations in US census data. Other key findings from the study include: From 1990, plumbing poverty shifted ...