Your two-part series on the plight of the ski bum inspired this letter (HCN, 10/25/04: As the town hollows out, one Aspen neighborhood thrives) (HCN,.11/8/04: A new breed of ‘ski bums’ is anything but ...

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people living in poverty in the U.S. decreased for the fifth consecutive year. Roughly 37 million people, or 11.4 percent of the total ...

Eugene Richards “Porter Lee and Mr. Will, Hughes, Arkansas” (1986) Porter Lee Davis helps her critically ill husband, Mr. Will, from the cab of their pickup truck. (All images courtesy of the artist ...

Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched his own financial advisory firm in 2018. Thomas' experience gives him expertise in a ...

The summer and fall of 2020 through the eyes of five people living in poverty in Chicago. In Chicago, your birthplace often determines your destiny. A child born in one West Side census tract between ...

It is no secret that the number of people living in poverty in the United States has consistently reached shocking and deplorable numbers. Food and housing insecurity is an issue that plagues many ...

With 10 percent of the world subsisting in extreme poverty, a global commitment to a living wage could help transform lives. ByJon Heggie Under a blazing sun, a farm laborer bends to pluck cotton from ...

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 ...

The American Dream for some isn't the reality that they live in. For some, it's still a dream. Others were woken up from the dream by the harsh circumstances of socioeconomic reality. And for others, ...

Out of 97,132 children with cancer, 12.63% at the time diagnosis lived in neighborhoods that had high rates of poverty for the previous 30 years. These children faced a 26% and 15% higher risk for ...

Another employer of the poor–often homeless men–is the day-labor-agency sector, companies such as Labor Ready, Allied Forces, Arizona Labor Express, Control Personnel and General Labor. The director ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. According to data from the U.S. Census ...