Cities are increasingly punishing people who have nowhere to go—and few Americans, including Democrats, seem to care.

The richest Americans live 10-15 years longer than the poorest Americans. It will take a lot more than Medicare for All to close the gap.

Édouard Louis confronts the French elite’s contempt for the poor.

New York City's child welfare agency has a reputation for unjustly targeting low-income families of color. Can it change?

Hot buttered rum—and homelessness—this holiday season

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.