A Pivotal Moment for Hungry Americans
A Republican plan to restrict food aid could reverse years of progress.
A Republican plan to restrict food aid could reverse years of progress.
As fewer Americans buy homes, and wages stagnate, rent control is becoming a campaign issue from coast to coast.
How to get more working-class candidates like Kerri Harris to run for office
How the Republican Party’s proposals to reform the food stamp program will keep people down
A conversation with historian Elizabeth Catte, author of a new book that upends narratives about a region that has been dubbed Trump Country
Geography is only partly to blame for the shrinking fortunes of small towns.
Why are so many children being raised by their grandparents?
With the FCC dismantling the rules that safeguard an open internet, rural and low-income consumers are newly vulnerable to a lack of access.
New poverty data from the Census Bureau reveals the extent of the damage that Trump and Paul Ryan could do to America’s neediest communities.
Fast food did not just find its way to low-income neighborhoods. It was brought there by the federal government.
Stripped of the region’s coal and ravaged by drugs, the people of Appalachia are fighting to survive.
As president, he's given up on empathetic populism and bought into Paul Ryan's agenda to punish the poor.
The bestselling author of "Hillbilly Elegy" has emerged as the liberal media's favorite white trash–splainer. But he is offering all the wrong lessons.
Clinton helped cast millions of children into poverty. Here's how she can make amends.
Studies show that black boys have a greater risk of suspension.
A new study shows that such a policy could cut child poverty in half.
It’s harder than ever for the poor to simply pick up and move.
Those left behind by Silicon Valley’s technology boom struggle to stay in the place they call home.
Miami is sinking beneath the sea—but not without a fight.