If you drink only water at restaurants, dwell in a dark home and force every last globule of toothpaste from the tube, you ...

Although the overall U.S. poverty rate declined and incomes rose rapidly for the second straight year in 2016, many poor Americans fell deeper into poverty, according to a Pew Research Center analysis ...

These are very poor people, working-class people, who had difficult lives. They really were hanging on to their America that deeply. It was very meaningful for me and for them.

The 2017 U.S. Census Bureau’s Official Poverty Measures reports that within the country, 40 million people — more than one in every eight Americans — live in poverty. Almost half of them are ...

Poor white Americans are dying of despair. And racism is to blame. A recent social science paper found that middle-aged non-Hispanic white Americans (ages 45-54) experienced a large increase in ...

Author Greg Kaufmann introduces three leaders within the Poor People’s Campaign who are attempting to change the narrative on poverty in the United States.

For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or death. The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles, and also quite a few smaller ones like Birmingham ...

Research shows poor white people are decidedly more pessimistic than poor African-Americans Poor whites and African-Americans often live in different worlds.

And poor Americans continue to have more chronic lung disease than the wealthy. ... Poor people may also have more limited access to smoking cessation programs and replacement therapies, they said.

Americans who lived in poorer counties in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic died from the virus at nearly twice the rate of people residing in wealthy counties, according to a new study.

Author Greg Kaufmann speaks with the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis about how poverty is viewed in America, the role of the media, and her role as co-chair of the new Poor People’s Campaign.