The "Oregon Experience" documentary explores how Oregon counties and other governmental institutions tried to meet the needs of people who were destitute or unable to care for themselves.

Poverty was one of the most popular subjects chosen for analysis. During week three of the semester back in September, "Frontline" released a documentary titled “Growing Up Poor in America ...

Rich Hill follows three teenage boys as they struggle with isolation, broken families, and lack of opportunity in their Missouri town.

Documentary photographer Jill Freedman recounts her experience living among demonstrators in the mud and rain during the 1968 Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C.

OPB premiered a new documentary that examines the history of government-funded relief institutions in Oregon – known as “poor farms” – that helped care for the state’s most vulnerable ...

William Vollmann talked about his book [Poor People], published by HarperCollins. Mr. Vollman traveled all over the world, asking people why they are poor. In this book he records the answers, and ...

"We need a movement to engage poor people who haven’t voted because they’ve never imagined the system could work." ...

Poor people have thoughts, opinions, and personality traits that have nothing to do with being poor, but you wouldn’t know it from the movies.

Perry narrates a new documentary on the nearly 70 million Americans who rely on alternative banking services like check cashing, payday lenders, and pawn shops.