Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self-image of ...

Some of the best coaches we can find to help struggling children escape poverty may be other children and their families.

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Seattle’s homelessness and housing crises are part of a much larger and concerning problem of American poverty, according to a United Nations expert’s recent report. “I think the United States has an ...

In his State of the Union address in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson famously called for “an unconditional war on poverty.” Since then, according to the Census Bureau, the proportion of Americans with ...

Community Warehouse Team picks up a furniture donation from a local resident. In the landscape of American poverty, certain essentials–like food and shelter–are widely recognized. Stable housing, in ...

I tried to let it go. Someone mentioned the essay to me on Monday, when it was a Substack post. I tweeted out some quick thoughts as to why no one should take it seriously, pointing out the glaring ...

Residents of Marion and Polk County are younger than the state's median age, income inequality decreased in Oregon and more than a third of Salem area households are cost burdened, according to new ...

Although the United States boasts the world's third-highest income per person, about 50-million Americans _ 19 percent of the population _ live below the national poverty line, according to a U.N.