As housing becomes increasingly costly, over 1 million Americans live without running water, even in affluent cities, new ...

The number of communities characterized by limited economic opportunity and widespread financial hardship is unsettling. In ...

Most scholarship on the subject focuses on conditions during childhood. But government support during adulthood plays the ...

Cash-poor Americans paid more than $39 billion in junk fees last year just to borrow money, according to a new report.

The wealthiest cities in the U.S. are almost seven times richer than the poorest regions, a disparity that has nearly doubled ...

Cash Poor Report shows Americans paid more than $39 billion in fees beyond the advertised Annual Percentage Rate.

These studies have yielded important insights, but they overlook one major reason why poverty in the U.S. is so much stickier than in peer countries: Americans born into poverty receive far less ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in ...