A little more than 1 in 10, that's how many working-age Hoosiers live below the official poverty line. A new report from the Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute suggests that the number is ...

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A new report from the National Academy of Sciences seeks to redefine poverty. The NAS presents the effort as a matter of science: “An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how ...

One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

More older Americans were living in poverty in 2024, new data on income, poverty, and health insurance released by the Census ...

The document, which will be issued Oct. 9, can be seen as a companion document to “Dilexit nos,” the fourth and final ...

Imagine you are an unborn spirit whom God has condemned to a life of poverty but has permitted to choose the nation in which to live. I'm betting that most any such condemned unborn spirit would ...

Could a new approach to defining persistent poverty actually hurt rural communities? A rural American small town with a two-lane paved road and a church steeple. One of the federal government’s key ...

New figures show California had the highest poverty rate in the country, tying with Louisiana, and researchers warned that ...

Rocio Cifuentes says the rollout of universal free meals at Welsh primary schools has "taken away stigma" [Getty Images] The ...

The News & Observer launched “Women and Children First?” because our state has a problem. Single mothers raising children under the age of 18 make up more than a third of the families meeting the ...