House Ways and Means Committee opens discussion about the economic costs of poverty on the heels of a new report from CAP. Tuesday night in his State of the Union address, President Bush talked about ...

The latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau detail the lack of any progress against poverty since 2000, write Mark Greenberg and Lisa Donner. The latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show ...

Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond’s disquieting new book, “Poverty, by America,” succinctly makes the case that poverty persists in the world’s rich county not because we are spending less and ...

FIRST ON FOX: The U.S. Census Bureau is dangerously close to incorporating woke political ideology into federal poverty studies should it adopt the recommendations of a politically partisan advisory ...

Why isn’t everyone in dire poverty, hungry, diseased, illiterate, missing teeth, eking out a subsistence existence in the wilderness, and making do with Stone Age technology? After all, that’s how we ...

Michelle Galvan and her three teenage sons pulled up to Second Harvest Food Bank's Erie warehouse Wednesday as volunteers surrounded her car and placed boxes of food in the trunk. It was the first ...

Although Melvin Page had a long career in public service, retiring proved to be much more difficult than he thought. Three years into his retirement, Page suffered a brain aneurysm that left him with ...

A homeless encampment by San Francisco City Hall. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) In 2016, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond created a sensation with his Pulitzer Prize–winning ...

What is wrong with New Mexico and how to do we make it right? For starters, recognize that government programs are not the answer — they are the problem. Too many New Mexicans have been seduced by the ...