New Census Bureau data highlights sharp contrasts in poverty across the U.S., with some states reporting rates nearly three times higher than others. Over the three-year period from 2022 through 2024, ...

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 ...

New figures show California had the highest poverty rate in the country, tying with Louisiana, and researchers warned that current federal policies threaten to make the situation worse.

California's poverty rate is once again the highest in the country, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows. What's more, ...

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 ...

Southeast Ohio is a region known for a long history of poverty. The region continues to suffer from this issue, with many ...

A record-high 581,000 Connecticut households, about 40%, couldn’t afford a basic “survival” budget in 2023, according to a new analysis from the United Way of Connecticut. And while more than 60% of ...

What is a conservative approach to fixing poverty? Republican leaders in Utah explored answers to that question at the annual ...

The Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council has laid out a road map. One of their top recommendations: a further expansion of the Empire State Child Credit. Credit: Getty Images. This year’s state ...

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, ...

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 dropped last year nationwide and in 38 states, according to census estimates released Thursday. But since that decrease was recorded in mid-2024, more people have signed up for the ...