•In one year, the top 1% — 3.5 million citizens — increased their wealth by $4 trillion, hitting a record $52 trillion. •In ...

Michiganders wait to learn whether the federal government will fund food assistance during the ongoing government shutdown.

A look into the Americans who could be affected by the delay of SNAP food assistance during the government shutdown.

Too much month and not enough check plagued the U.S. poor and working class before the federal government shutdown and funding lapse. To wit, business is ...

Your government is failing you right now. Poverty is not red or blue,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said at a Capitol Hill press conference alongside House Speaker Mike ...

Research shows Black Americans who follow all three norms of the Success Sequence are less likely to reach middle-class ...

SNAP is a lifeline for one in eight Americans and millions of working households. About 70% of the adults who received supplemental food assistance last year worked full-time but ...

Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a ...

Car loan delinquencies have gone up by 50 percent in the last 15 years, a troubling trend considering that many Americans ...

As the government shutdown continues, states are working to provide food assistance to millions of Americans who rely on SNAP ...

Nearly three-in-four U.S. adults (74%) say economic conditions are only fair or poor, up slightly from 72% in January 2024.

In both parties, the share that say the higher education system is going in the wrong direction has gone up by at least 10 percentage points since 2020.