"Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World" according to a recent United Nations report on global inequality. Any doubts about poverty in America have been erased by the plight of New ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Most poor people are not black or brown. Most poor people are white. They ...

Even if SNAP contingency funds are released, millions of Americans—especially single mothers, Latinos, and Blacks—still face ...

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Raising the minimum wage stands to benefit millions of American workers, supporters say, lifting them out of poverty and increasing workers’ family resources, but it has remained untouched for over a ...

BOB GARFIELD: This is On the Media. I’m Bob Garfield. BROOKE GLADSTONE: And I’m Brooke Gladstone. Now starts the final lap in our poverty tour, which begins as we did, with the Virgil of our ...

When the system thrives and profits off brokenness, who’s truly there for those caught in it? This is how the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- From "Crazy Rich Asians" to the model minority myth, there is a stereotype that all Asian Americans are doing just fine financially. But Asian Americans have some of the highest poverty ...