Last week, for the second week in a row, new federal statistics revealed that hardship in America was at or near an all-time low in 2020—a year that saw a once-in-a-century pandemic upend economic and ...

Few things are more frustrating than when the government releases statistics that require an explanation from technical experts for anyone to make sense of them. But flaws and unduly complicated ...

The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released ...

Poverty in the United States fell last year, even amid the impact of the pandemic, due to government aid, including relief payments and unemployment insurance. That's according to new data just ...

Alex J. Rouhandeh serves as a special correspondent for Newsweek. Previously, he served as Newsweek's congressional correspondent, reporting from Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In 2025, Alex ...

The official rate rose slightly to 11.4%, but the agency says that after accounting for pandemic relief aid, the poverty rate fell to 9.1%. The uninsured population also rose slightly. U.S. poverty ...

There was a two-fold increased odds (adjusted OR, 2.33; 95% CI, 1.86 to 2.91) of having fair/poor health for low-income cancer survivors compared with higher-income cancer survivors. There was an ...

Volunteers fill boxes at the Food Bank for the Heartland distribution warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska, on Dec. 8, 2021. FRONTLINE has tracked how poverty affects American families with children across ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Two out of every five students in Syracuse city schools are living in poverty, data recently released by the United States Census Bureau shows. Syracuse City School District ranked ...

How would you summarize the effects of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on poverty? We estimate that between 88 million and 115 million additional people will be pushed into extreme poverty in 2020, bringing ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem. A mother and son living in a Walmart parking lot in North Dakota in 2012.Credit...Eugene Richards Supported by ...

Attitudes Toward Striving for Quality and Length of Life Among Patients With Advanced Cancer and a Poor Prognosis We examined characteristics of impoverished cancer survivors in the United States, ...