And this isn't just about cities. Rural America tells the same story. Stilwell, Oklahoma, a small Republican-majority town, ...

Poverty might mean different things in different parts of the world and to different people, but it is largely defined as being unable to afford a minimum standard of living. The United States has ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem.

The Poverty Epidemic in America, by the Numbers Statistics show that poverty is more than a moral failing--it imposes huge, preventable costs on American society and the economy.

15 percent of U.S. populace lives in poverty - more than any other industrialized nation, and a dismal record for America ...

Matthew Desmond's 'Evicted' changed the conversation about housing insecurity. He explains why his new book, 'Poverty, by America,' is even more ambitious.

By the official definition of poverty in America, New Mexico has the nation’s highest poverty rate, 21.8 percent... But a newer, more comprehensive measure of poverty by the U.S. Census Bureau ...