In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more ...

Poverty rates remain especially high among Arab and haredi populations, who together account for 65.1% of people in poverty, nearly double their share of the population.

At the height of the recession in 2012, nearly one in four American children were living in poverty. Today, five years after America went through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, ...

In many upstate cities like Syracuse, Binghamton, and Rochester, the number of children living in poverty is upwards of 40%.

What do twenty pounds of bricks feel like? Would it be easier to carry them on your back or your head? At what age would a child be allowed to work in a brickyard? For second-grader Emily Salibian, ...

National Insurance figures for 2024 show 21% of Israelis live in poverty, including 880,000 children and 150,000 elderly ...

New federal data shows that poverty among Allen County’s school-age children is rising, even as unemployment remains low and jobs are widely available.

Israel ranks second in the OECD for child poverty, amid deep social and regional gaps, after 2024 poverty report shows ...

Child poverty is set to remain at near record levels unless the government takes further action beyond the measures already ...

America’s children continued to be hardest hit by poverty in 2012, according to new Census Bureau statistics, the Washington Post reports. Suggested Reading Nicki Minaj’s MAGA Support Shouldn’t ...

Childhood poverty is a persistent problem in the Netherlands. Last year, Stichting Leergeld, a foundation that supports families in need with school supplies, helped 200,000 children. And a recent ...