This is what happens when a record-long government shutdown affects millions of Americans who are already struggling with the high cost of food, housing, child care, and just about everything else.

The Department of Health and Human Services sets the federal poverty guidelines each year through the Federal Register. The ...

We have a large number of kids that actually come to school to shower because they don’t have running water at home." ...

Four national organizations offered firsthand accounts of what they described as a recent spike in requests for help from ...

Billionaire Bill Gates says we should back away from urgent emissions cuts and bet instead on tomorrow’s tech. But unless ...

The Trump administration suspended funding for food stamps this weekend, and local food banks are already overwhelmed by ...

The Service Workers SNAP Emergency Fund offers direct cash assistance, access to food resource partners and tools to organize ...

SNAP, America’s food safety net, has become a bargaining chip in Washington’s standoff. Reporter Sarah D. Wire explains ...

As poverty rates rise, reading proficiency rates tend to fall. But poverty is not destiny, and some schools and districts hugely outperform what might be expected of them based solely on which ...

Utah's U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy suggested changing the Senate filibuster rule and says there is no need for House members to be ...

Trump’s big bill will reduce the after-tax income of the bottom income quintile—the poorest fifth of American households—by an estimated 3 percent.

Beneath the fact of poverty in America lies something even more ominous: the ideology of necropolitics. In necropolitics, ...