Dr Eunan O'Neill, director of public health for Cornwall, said child poverty affected "every aspect of a child's life", and ...

The U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates among wealthy countries. Here’s a look at struggles kids living in ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) — Community leaders and volunteers in Saginaw are looking to inspire change through an interactive experience. The group took part in a community action poverty simulation at the ...

Sitting at a blueberry blue table in a Head Start classroom in Pullman, Mich., about an hour south of Grand Rapids, preschool teacher Julie Beck helps a little girl draw a rainbow with crayons. Nearby ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — City Council Vice President LaShay D. Harris released a 200+ page report detailing 13 initiatives to enhance the lives of Rochester’s children. A December report by The Children’s ...

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 ...

Low-income older Americans on average die nearly a decade earlier than wealthier people, a new analysis finds.

The “harsh realities” of poverty in St. Louis, according to a Legal Services of Eastern Missouri report, are visible during events including the annual Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis MLK Food ...

Americans over 60 are having financial trouble meeting their basic needs. For the lowest earners, that can spell an earlier death, a new report found.

More than one in three children in Romania, roughly 1.25 million, live in poverty, and the percentage rises dramatically to ...

The absence of strong accountability turns anti-poverty programmes into symbolic gestures rather than vehicles of real change ...