About 43 million people — or 12.9% of Americans — lived in poverty last year. That’s according to this week’s release of the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, a more comprehensive measure ...

Woman's Day answers your most frequently asked questions. According to Australian charity Share the Dignity, one in five menstruating Australians have limited to no access to the necessary sanitary ...

The child poverty rate in the United States more than doubled between 2021 and 2022, according to new data on poverty, income, and health insurance from the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 12. A year ...

Hundreds of needy people line up around the block to receive food from embattled 14th District Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de León, during a free food distribution outside his council office ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Two popular reports right now seemingly show Bryan-College Station has one of the happiest workforces in the nation, but at the same time one of the lowest paid workforces in the ...

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...

Fewer than 10 of the California Legislature’s 120 members are renters. So how can these elected officials possibly understand the plight of tenants under stress from rent hikes? That, in a nutshell, ...