Green is making waves with a provocative claim: the official U.S. poverty line is a "lie" — that is, wildly disconnected from ...

Lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are again under pressure to renew extra Obamacare assistance as healthcare premiums begin to ...

Ask Americans how they feel about their finances, and many will tell you they’re barely getting by — or worse. In recent ...

The Federal Government must urgently lift income support payments as today's routine indexation falls far short of what ...

California is nothing if not a land of contrast. It is a state of astounding economic might, yet it carries the highest poverty rate in the nation. It has more residents on the Forbes 400 list of ...

Applications for Texas Education Freedom Accounts can be submitted starting Feb. 4. The initiative reshapes how families can ...

With uncertainty in Congress around reviving expired federal health care subsidies, Connecticut officials are considering ...

In Yangoji leprosy settlement in Abuja, stigma, recurring fever, and escalating poverty are impacting the daily lives and well-being ...

United Way is pushing for the federal government to follow a poverty model akin to the organization’s ALICE study, which ...

Human-wildlife conflict has driven the decline of once-abundant species and is pushing others to the brink of extinction.

The tax cut isn’t coming from the federal government, but a handful of states. Eight states lowered their income tax rate, ...

Income limits vary by bankruptcy type, state, and household size, but they're typically higher than people expect.