A day before Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to Milwaukee, President Joe Biden aimed to speak directly to Black voters in a pre-taped radio interview with Milwaukee’s 101.7 “The Truth,” aired May ...

The last decade of officially celebrated growth left behind a vast underclass. The world’s richest 500 people, hardly enough to fill a movie theater, command more wealth than the bottom 416 million.

In February, the Center on Poverty and Social Policy, at Columbia University, released a staggering new report on child poverty in the United States. The study found that the child-poverty rate had ...

Young Thug is interviewed alongside fiancée Jerrika Karlae in the new issue of PAPER. In the interview they both discuss poverty, how it has affected them growing up, and how they help fight it in ...

In an interview released Wednesday, Housing Secretary Ben Carson said that a “certain mind-set” contributes to people living in poverty, pointing to habits and a “state of mind” children take from ...

The freshman class at Frankford High School in Northeast Philadelphia faces long odds. But on Friday they might have gotten at least a little better. The neighborhood high school— where 85 percent of ...

How would you summarize the effects of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on poverty? We estimate that between 88 million and 115 million additional people will be pushed into extreme poverty in 2020, bringing ...

Flint is the city that fights back, says Dr. Mona Hanna. She's the Flint pediatrician who raised the alarm about the city's water crisis. She's also the co-director of Rx Kids, a program that provides ...

How did you find out that you had been selected to preach this retreat? I received a letter from the Apostolic Nuncio in the United States, saying that I was being asked to preach the retreat. I spoke ...