Poverty

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the war on poverty, provoking a flurry of studies correcting some widespread myths.

Taylor, a single mother of three, recalls how her dire economic situation and struggle to find employment led to her criminalization for being “poor while Black.”

Congress is gutting vital programs for the poor while heaping billions of dollars of relief on a few wealthy families.

A girl was born in Britain.

Indeed, a state of emergency with a domestic Marshall Plan like design should be declared in many other urban and rural communities in our nation.

With an election in England on Thursday, the UK Independence Party is gaining steam in the poorest regions with its anti-immigrant rhetoric.

In today's On the News segment: Debtors prisons have been outlawed for more than a century, yet it's still effectively a crime to be poor in our country; the …

Can authentic reform be made of this international order, and can any proposed reform better align with our moral values to alleviate the suffering of the global poor?

Gentrification of cities isn't just caused by rich people moving in. In San Francisco, the police help.

Attacks on women's reproductive health are ultimately a war on poor women.