In late 2020, a crowd of mostly Black and Hispanic workers rallied outside the statehouse in Albany, New York to gather support for a $15-an-hour minimum wage for tipped workers. A group of white ...

Charlie rests while listening to a sermon before being admitted to lunch at the Hope Center on June 21, 2022 in Hagerstown, Maryland. The Hope Center, which has been assisting homeless and addicted ...

Stigma is a glue that holds poverty, inequality and economic insecurity in place enabling and exacerbating inequalities of wealth, health and opportunity, says a new report. Poverty Stigma is a ...

Poverty is rampant in South Carolina, limiting people's access to food, health care, housing and quality education. But conversations to address these issues have often left out those from low-wealth ...

William Evans, an economics professor at the University of Notre Dame, has spent most of his career researching labor, education, public finance, and health. But for the last several years, he has ...

Stigma is a glue that holds poverty, inequality and economic insecurity in place enabling and exacerbating inequalities of wealth, health and opportunity, says a new report. Poverty Stigma is a ...

Rising senior poverty: Millions of older Americans in suburbs face poverty, isolation, and high housing costs due to poor transit and limited local services. Housing model mismatch: Suburban layouts ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...