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 — ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The main gauge of U.S. poverty did not change significantly in 2024, and household income also remained about level except for gains among the wealthiest Americans, the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person sleeps on a sidewalk in Los Angeles. California's steep housing costs are pushing more people into poverty, the report ...

*This is the kind of news that makes you wonder just what the hell is really going on in these United States of America. That’s because since 1978, China has lifted over 800 million people out of ...

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self-image of ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom often boasts that California, if it were a country, would have the world’s fourth-largest economy. But despite its wealth, the state has also seen a sharp increase in poverty since ...

The U.S. is the world’s wealthiest nation and yet, year after year, a significant share of the population lives in poverty. The experience of poverty touches every part of a person’s life. “Poverty is ...

Butler Hospital workers, including nurses and mental health staff, are on strike due to unfair labor practices. The strike, the longest hospital lockout in Rhode Island history, centers around low ...