One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

A new report from the National Academy of Sciences seeks to redefine poverty. The NAS presents the effort as a matter of science: “An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how ...

Could a new approach to defining persistent poverty actually hurt rural communities? A rural American small town with a two-lane paved road and a church steeple. One of the federal government’s key ...

When we talk about poverty- you always think about somebody else right? Poor?...Me?...Not me. Well, a report released today says when you look at poverty in terms of ...

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 ...

Poverty in the United States is at crisis levels. It’s not going away, it’s not getting better, and it’s an outrage that in the richest country in the world people are suffering and dying every day ...

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 ...

President Obama and the left claim they’re protecting the poor and downtrodden by opposing spending cuts. It’s a key point in budget talks because anti-poverty spending is a huge part of the federal ...

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 ...