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

Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the ...

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

Low-income households are becoming increasingly dependent on government welfare and entitlement programs rather than work ...

There are a lot of known unknowns about exactly how Republicans will approach the major tax and spending issues facing the new Congress. But one thing is clear: Low-income Americans are going to be in ...

The old cliché, "The rich get richer while the poor get poorer," thrives for those who have, and threatens or at least diminishes hope for those who have not. Merton translated (literally) a verse ...

Mississippi, the poorest state in the United States, is close to surpassing Europe's largest economy Germany's GDP per capita. Euronews Business compares US states with European countries.

A private business has helped supercharge a controversial federal drug program. Patients and insurers have been left with big ...