Stephen Roll, Jenn Finders, and Leah Hamilton Childhood poverty in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in history in 2021. The ...

Burdette, the single largest household expense for her and her husband, Brandon Burdette, is $2,600 a month for child care. The couple has two kids, ages ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — Poverty in New York has reached its highest level in more than a decade, according to the latest Poverty Tracker report from the Robin Hood Foundation and Columbia University.

Medicaid expansion remains a critical source of coverage for people with low incomes, many of whom lack access to affordable health coverage through other sources. In the ten remaining non-expansion ...

As premiums jump and assistance shrinks, a growing number of older people are being forced to delay or skip health care.

A region long defined by frontier myths now sets a national example for electing women to real political power.

The cost of basics like housing and food rose, while incomes and other resources, like public benefits, did not keep up.

Nearly 2.2 million New Yorkers lived in poverty in 2024, a slight increase from the year before, while hundreds of thousands of others struggled to keep food on the table, pay their rent or have money ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — How much access to opportunity Washtenaw County residents have varies depending on where they live, a new county index and map shows. The county Office of Community and Economic ...

United Way Horry County revealed that 41% of households in Horry County fall below the ALICE threshold, meaning they are asset-limited, income-constrained, and employed.