In the Bible, Jesus traveled around Galilee and Judea preaching the good news to underserved communities. He was often surrounded by those of meager means and in one story, he fed a crowd of some ...

A School of Social Work faculty member is helping redefine the country’s definition of being poor with research that shows the dramatic difference between achieving “basic economic security” and the ...

There are many synonyms for the word “poverty.” Used as a noun, it can mean scarcity, shortage, insufficiency, hardship, destitution, distress, need, deprivation and impoverishment. It is easier to ...

President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, center left, leave the home in Inez, Ky., of Tom Fletcher, a father of eight who told Johnson he’d been out of work for nearly two years, in this ...

The federal government is looking at new measures to help define poverty. This is the first time in decades that a new definition is being considered. The current measure, which is mainly of food, is ...

“My friends, some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won,” Ronald Reagan declared in his State of the Union address in 1988. He lamented that “government created a ...

Single mothers raising children under the age of 18 make up more than a third of the families meeting the federal poverty definition in North Carolina. That’s $20,030 a year, before taxes, for a ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for analyzing economic and ...

For the past 25 years, my research as a cultural anthropologist has taken me into the homes and neighborhoods of people living in poverty in cities and rural communities throughout the U.S. To better ...

Imagine you are an unborn spirit whom God has condemned to a life of poverty but has permitted to choose the nation in which to live. I'm betting that most any such condemned unborn spirit would ...

She has set out a list of priorities to address child poverty, including a designated child benefit payment for the poorest ...