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Portage County Community Action Council Executive Director John Kennedy debunks myths about poverty in Portage County and ...

Spencer Platt / Getty Images A Nepalese immigrant in his early 40s described the stress and uncertainty he felt during college about how to afford rent, food and tuition despite having a scholarship.

A teacher works with a student on numbers in the Fort Osage School District. Many schools in Missouri invested in learning mentors and tutors after the pandemic began to help students academically ...

Alecia Reid is an award-winning, Emmy-nominated reporter for CBS News New York. She is a sustainability and social justice advocate; passionate about giving a voice to people who may not otherwise be ...

Prince Edward Island has made "very, very little progress" on child poverty, says one of the co-authors of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative's report on youth poverty in the province.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prevalence of heart disease risk factors ranged from 1.4% to 17.5% in people living in extreme poverty. The ...

A shrinking number of Californians live in poverty. But the improvement is much too slow. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed the latest “supplemental” poverty measurements from the Census Bureau. These ...

More than 660,000 older Americans in California are living below the poverty line, according to an analysis by the health research site KFF, the highest number in the country. The ...

A WalletHub study ranked all US states based on factors like housing costs, quality of public education, and healthcare. New Mexico came last.