LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The number of children living in poverty in America has increased just one month after the expanded child tax credits ended. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social ...

Just as our ignorance of science puts us at risk from disease or environmental disaster, our ignorance of poverty creates real dangers. Which is why, just as children take classes on health or climate ...

America's long-running war on poverty "is largely over and a success." I am a researcher who has studied poverty for nearly 20 years in Cleveland, a city with one of the country's highest rates of ...

There are many synonyms for the word “poverty.” Used as a noun, it can mean scarcity, shortage, insufficiency, hardship, destitution, distress, need, deprivation and impoverishment. It is easier to ...

What does it mean to be poor? There are two basic ways to define poverty. To get a better measure of who needs help — and a better sense of how to provide it — society needs a third definition. The ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Two popular reports right now seemingly show Bryan-College Station has one of the happiest workforces in the nation, but at the same time one of the lowest paid workforces in the ...

The Jackson anti-poverty task force met for its first meeting and left with a question that will set the agenda for the committee going forward, and that's how to define poverty. "Poverty is the state ...

Indian women past childbearing age are dying at a higher rate than those in other countries because of poverty and limited access to resources such as food and health care, according to a study from ...

Chances are, most people you talk to would likely agree that it’s important to end poverty. But, if you were to ask all those people to explain poverty, chances are you would get a lot of different ...

A new report contends that 20 percent of American jobs pay lower than poverty-level wages. The Associated Press write-up notes that in 2002, the poverty threshold was $18,244 for a family of four with ...

The federal government is looking at new measures to help define poverty. This is the first time in decades that a new definition is being considered. The current measure, which is mainly of food, is ...