The African-American leader Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, described as the “closest person we have to Dr. King,” addresses ...

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By examining the United States, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany, the team found that welfare systems play ...

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?

The embracing of such a system means that income inequality is higher in the United States than in many parts of the world. The link between one’s personal income and poverty is obvious ...

People in several states reported they had received racist text messages after Donald Trump won the 2024 election.

Software expert Chris von Simson travels all over the country and says Donald Trump finds his appeal with those who have no ...

Millions of jobs have been created in the US economy, but many Americans still live in poverty. Who are they? For nearly six years, the US economy has been generating huge numbers of jobs ...

In Central America and the Dominican Republic, one in three people live in poverty, a figure above the average for Latin America. While there are substantial differences among the countries that make ...