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.