Feriha Yilmaz is an attractive, beautiful, talented and ambitious daughter of a poor family. Her father, Riza Yilmaz, is a ...

In 2020, more than 37 million Americans lived in poverty according to new data from the U.S Census Bureau. That number doesn't include those who are above the poverty line and struggling to make a ...

Hundreds of Poor People’s Campaign leaders are heading to Capitol Hill next week to demand lawmakers address death by poverty in the United States.

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social ...

The number of children living in poverty in the United States more than doubled in 2022, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 12, the biggest increase since it ...

Mr. Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, is the director of its Eviction Lab and the author of “Poverty, by America” and “Evicted.” The United States has a poverty problem. A third of the ...

Pulitzer winner for Evicted Matthew Desmond examines why the U.S. has more poverty than other rich nations. He finds it spends big on social programs, but gives the most to those who need it least.

Springfield's poverty rate is almost at 20%, when the state rate is at 13% and the national rate is 13%. We are the poorest city in the state of Missouri, and it shows," Ybañez said.

The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which measures whether people have enough resources to cover their needs, was 12.4% for U.S. households in 2022, an increase of 4.6 percentage points from a ...

Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it. This is the thesis of the lauded sociologist Matthew Desmond’s new book, Poverty, by America.The best ...