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.

The U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates among wealthy countries. Here’s a look at struggles kids living in ...

Wealth inequality is growing. But this isn’t just about money. Inequality produces despair. America must re-establish our ...

The wealth gap in the United States isn't just wide—it's a chasm. The top 1 percent, about 1.3 million households, hold $52 trillion in net worth. The bottom 50 percent, 66 million households, scrape ...

San Francisco's tech boom coexists with a severe drug epidemic and homelessness, leading to high overdose rates and criticism ...

Older adults with the fewest financial resources die nine years earlier, on average, than those with the greatest wealth, according to a report by the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and the ...

A report spotted a nine-year life gap where American seniors from low-income families die earlier. Find out how poverty ...

*Attorney Antonio Moore and Political Commentator Yvette Carnell answer the recent video by Boyce Watkins stating that the Racial Wealth Gap is an illusion (See Here). In the video the two address the ...

Stacker used data from the Census Bureau's 2024 1-year American Community Survey to rank the poorest states by median household income.

But Clemons, founding CEO of both organizations, grew up "in abject poverty," in a single-parent household, in a neighborhood where kids weren't always expected to succeed, and he knows how difficult ...