Last month, a Wall Street portfolio manager named Michael Green created a bit of a stir with a Substack article headlined, ...

The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet over 10 percent of people – nearly 40 million – live in poverty. It's... The Roots of Poverty in America The United States is one ...

A disturbing statistic revealing the dismal state of health in America is that more than 40% of the population is obese (defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having a body mass ...

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self-image of ...

America has waged "war" on poverty since the 1960s, and official numbers suggest substantial progress. Take poverty among the elderly: Between 1959 and 2003, the number of elderly Americans living in ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social scientists ...

The United States remains the richest country in the world. Given that fact, we should be leading the world in helping those who are “poor,” in America and around the globe. And we have done so. That ...

The gap between the rich and poor in America is huge and well-known. But what’s not very well known is just how large it is. According to the London School of Economics and Political Science, “The ...

America's middle class is shrinking. The latest census classifies almost half of all Americans as either poor or "low income." As jobs disappear and government programs are cut back, more people are ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...

I did all that could be considered 'pulling myself up by the bootstraps.' No matter how hard I worked, it felt like ...