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

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

Poverty rates have also plunged during that time, dropping from 13.3% to around 3.5% after adjusting for inflation. But the ...

Social Security and Medicare help support older Americans. Many told BI that the checks weren't enough and that they wished ...

Universal basic income offers no-strings-attached cash. UBI differs from welfare programs, like SNAP and Medicaid, which ...

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

The US housing market has been notoriously tough ... lower household incomes, higher rates of poverty, greater public ...

A Nepalese immigrant in his early 40s described the stress and uncertainty he felt during college about how to afford rent, ...

President Lyndon Johnson initiated the war on poverty with the U.S. rate around 19%. Today, the official poverty rate is ...

Americans deserve better: They deserve universal health care. The U.S. must move toward a Medicare for All system that not ...

A rural community's experience indicates that an essential element in a war on poverty is inducing Slum dwellers to develop patterns of social functioning, including group action and local leadership ...