Among minority American communities, rising household wealth far from a guarantees an improved standard of living, according to a new analysis of cens...

At 6:45 a.m., Michael Pierce takes a place in line. Pierce is hoping that today -- unlike yesterday -- there will be work at the Brooklyn temporar...

Over the last decade, child poverty surged in 38 states and erased many of the gains in child well-being made in the last 20 years, according to a new...

Sasha Mandel says she never imagined going on welfare. But her plans for a career and the independence she craved ran headlong into a pair of unforese...

The challenges poor and homeless Americans often face accessing clean drinking water and restroom facilities violate international human rights standa...

Walter Character -- a self-described Atlanta family man, out-of-work African American and independent voter -- spends a great deal of time consuming n...