Under Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, there are “fewer families living in poverty” than under her predecessor. The poverty rate under Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, has ranged from ...

When you think of the stuggles of poverty, who do you picture? Where do they live? The problem in Central New York is growing ...

The global fight against extreme poverty used to be a success story. In 1981, a staggering 41% of the world’s population ...

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Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Before he died on ...

The “harsh realities” of poverty in St. Louis, according to a Legal Services of Eastern Missouri report, are visible during events including the annual Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis MLK Food ...

More and more of society’s basic functions have come to depend on the accumulation of private wealth, while instilling fear that a good life is otherwise impossible. (iStock/HABesen) One way of ...

If you’ve been trying to follow the debate over the new measure of poverty released by the Census Bureau this morning, you’re probably completely confused by now. So far in the last few days we’ve ...

In many upstate cities like Syracuse, Binghamton, and Rochester, the number of children living in poverty is upwards of 40%.

Before he died on Sept. 4 at the age of 99, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton left us with stark warnings about President Donald Trump and the American right. One of the country’s leading experts on how ...