Edelman, considered “America’s First Mom,” founded the Children’s Defense Fund as a witness for children and to break the ...

McDowell County, West Virginia barely survived coal's collapse and the opioid crisis. Now cuts to food stamps and Medicaid ...

In 1988 President Ronald Reagan argued that “the federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Thomas Sowell, a 95-year-old economist at the Hoover Institution and social-media ...

When it was first developed in 1963, the poverty threshold was set at the cost of a minimal diet defined by the U.S.

Mexico has been following the same rulebook of engagement with the cartels for much of the past two decades, with very ...

Democrats who refused to applaud were the real losers of President Donald Trump's first official State of the Union of his second term.

McDowell County, once the nation's largest coal producer, is now one of the poorest places in the United States. Residents have little faith in the government.

U.S. policymakers have embarked on a systemic reorientation of the U.S. economy with the overarching goal to increase ...

Researchers reexamined the Talent Transfer Initiative, finding that top-rated teachers’ value-added scores fell when they ...

Examines ten U.S. cities facing poverty, crime, and economic hardship.

Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty line than any other program in the United States. Without Social Security, 23 ...