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Latest Census data show an increase in childhood poverty
Despite wage gains, lower-income families have been hit hard by inflation and the expiration of pandemic-era benefits.
16 Wealthy Celebs Who Are Super Frugal Now Because They Grew Up In Poverty
When Hilary Swank was 6, her family moved into a trailer park. Nine years later, her parents separated, and she and her ...
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2023 Census Poverty Data Reveal Uncertain Progress and Importance of Policy Choices
Census data paint a complicated picture of progress against poverty in 2023, as the national poverty rate fell, rose, or held ...
Nearly a million more children fell into poverty last year. Both presidential campaigns want to give parents money to fix that.
Nearly 10 million children were in poverty in 2023. It could become a key election issue.
Child Poverty Hits Five-Year High in America
The child poverty rate surged from 12.4 percent in 2022 to 13.7 percent in 2023, according to the Census Bureau ...
Lib Dems to call for free school meals for all children in poverty
The Liberal Democrats are calling for free school meals to be offered to an additional 900,000 children living in poverty.
A Migrant Family Struggles for a Year in San Francisco
Margarita Solito and her family fled violence and poverty in El Salvador, hoping to build a better life in San Francisco. The ...
Nonprofit workers fill holes in the social safety net, but millions are financially insecure themselves
A new report from United for ALICE found that nearly a quarter of nonprofit employees are living just above the federal ...
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A different kind of poverty memoir
Dana Trent’s heartbreaking and hilarious book eschews the conventional American rags-to-riches arc.
‘Little Black Dress’ campaign designed to raise awareness, money to fight poverty
Jaycee Gilland hopes by wearing this same outfit all week, she and her fellow teachers at Miller might raise awareness of a ...
US Incomes Rose Last Year but Poverty Rates Changed Little, Census Data Shows
The income and poverty data for 2023 comes two months before the U.S. presidential election. The shadow cast by a surge in ...
Debt Was Supposed to Cure Poverty and Help Pay for College. What Went Wrong?
Debt still carries a whiff of immorality, even as it’s become central to nearly everyone’s economic lives. After President Biden announced a federal student debt forgiveness plan — now tied up in ...