Ray Perryman is the head of The Perryman Group and serves as a distinguished professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2022, 37.9 million people (11.5% the U.S. population), ...

Ever since Shipler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004), the term working poor has entered the realm beyond industrial sociology. Put rather simply, the working poor ...

The pandemic has been rough for families living on the edge. On a chilly January afternoon, 5-year-old NyAnna House asked her friend Audrey to play. "Let's go outside and ride bikes," she said, ...

The proposed changes to Medicaid are part of a comprehensive legislative package driven by House Republicans. This bill aims to offset the costs of significant tax cuts and other provisions, with ...

As of 2023, a whopping 50% of Rockland County families were living below the poverty line or were the working poor, barely making ends meet, according to a new United Way study. The United Way ...

In July a team of researchers from a Harvard-affiliated research institute and the US Census Bureau released a study on economic mobility in the United States. The results, published in the article, ...

The moral of this editorial is simple: Never stop fighting for what you believe in, especially in Tallahassee. Despite the odds, keep speaking up. A rare and surprising thing happened at the state ...

Too much month and not enough check plagued the U.S. poor and working class before the federal government shutdown and funding lapse. To wit, business is booming for America’s car repossession ...

ICE raids continue the capitalistic putdown of the working poor. If the government really wanted to make a better place, they would go into the corporations that hire these folks, and fine them 20 ...