More than 7 in 10 Americans say current economic conditions in the country are "poor" or "very poor in a new CNN/SSRS poll.

Undermining the principles that made America wealthy is no way to fix poverty. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently participated in a CNN Town Hall. Sanders appears to be ...

The richest 1% of households have accumulated almost 1,000 times more wealth than the poorest 20% over the last three and a half decades.

One in eight Americans use federal food aid but halting the SNAP program would hurt Black Americans more than anyone else ...

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project.

One in eight Americans use federal food aid but halting the SNAP program would hurt Black Americans more than anyone else.

A fifth of Louisiana's children live in poverty, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation. That could jump to a third.

In Minneapolis, where Somali refugees helped revitalize entire neighborhoods, the community was stunned by the presidential order capping annual refugee admissions at 7,500, the lowest number since th ...

While "off-year elections have been a barometer of current sentiment," they are not "a predictor of the next national elections." ...

Mutual aid refers to reciprocal support networks of neighbors who promptly meet each other’s most pressing needs when ...

One of the recent suggestions is from the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a nonpartisan policy analysis and research group. It has proposed that the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, ...

Dr. Cohen is co-director of LeadingAge LTSS Center at University of Massachusetts Boston and has long studied the crisis of ...