This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. An estimated 41 million Americans are living below the ...

People walk into a New York City grocery store that accepts food stamps. The poverty rate declined last year, but participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known ...

In this post I discuss the policy implications of declaring the Supplemental Poverty Measure the new official measure, an action that could be taken unilaterally by the Director of the Office of ...

EXCLUSIVE: About 39 percent of all American children live in households that use food stamps, maps and data show ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The United States is, in many ways, the center of gravity ...

Many Americans took a double whammy to the pocketbook this year: Prices for things like food and rent rose, and federal pandemic aid continued to peter out. But a string of states took a cue from one ...

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

This is a story about two very different Massachusettses. One of them is well-educated, affluent, and largely suburban and white, while the other is rural, poor and often Black or brown. Those stark ...