Watch the prologue from "Born Poor" — a documentary made over 14 years that follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through the teen years to young adulthood.

After Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer for Evicted, about families struggling to stay housed, the Princeton sociologist realized he still didn't understand why the U.S. has more poverty than any other ...

For the richest country in history, poverty in America remains jarringly widespread. Taking government assistance into account, one in eight American adults was classified as poor on the eve of the ...

This is the time of year when the U.S. Census Bureau publishes its latest data on poverty in the United States, and headlines about it are presenting a mixed picture. One set of survey results found ...

(RNS) — In the run-up to Election Day in 2020, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden delivered a major address on strategies to reduce U.S. poverty. To his credit, that strategy was later reflected in ...

Worst States to Be Poor in America. Let’s talk about the worst states to live in poverty here in the USA. Living below the poverty line in the United States or any country for that matter sucks. The ...