The SPLC campaign intends to reshape narratives about poverty by exposing misinformation and helping communities root out ...

Two new studies report worse colorectal cancer survival among patients with lower socioeconomic status, adding weight to a ...

Tennessee has made progress in reducing child poverty over the past decade, but nearly one in five children in the state is ...

State media, embracing the gaming phrase “kill line,” is asserting China’s political superiority over the United States, ...

In recognition of Poverty Awareness Month, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces a new campaign, Poverty Is Not a Line.

A shrinking number of Californians live in poverty. But the improvement is much too slow. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed the latest “supplemental” poverty measurements from the Census Bureau. These ...

For years, state leaders have treated tax cuts as a shortcut to prosperity — but this policy isn’t working and it's leaving ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...

Before he died on Sept. 4 at the age of 99, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton left us with stark warnings about President Donald Trump and the American right. One of the country’s leading experts on how ...

More and more of society’s basic functions have come to depend on the accumulation of private wealth, while instilling fear that a good life is otherwise impossible. (iStock/HABesen) One way of ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. These stories remind us that poverty is not a personal ...

What is the state of poverty in Nigeria? Poverty in Nigeria comes in various forms: a lack of income and productive resources ...