Although the overall U.S. poverty rate declined and incomes rose rapidly for the second straight year in 2016, many poor Americans fell deeper into poverty, according to a Pew Research Center analysis ...

Policy. The Black Family in 1965 and Today Poor black neighborhoods are not the unassisted creation of poor black people, but largely the malignant result of factors beyond their control.

Democrats have united around a plan to dramatically cut child poverty. The American Family Act, one of Democrats’ biggest policy initiatives of 2019, explained.

When the War on Poverty began, 7 percent of American children were born outside marriage. Today the number is 41 percent. The collapse of marriage is the main cause of child poverty today.

The poor, the professionals, and the missing middle need policies that allow them to achieve the American Dream, write Heather Boushey and Joan C. Williams in this report. Work-family conflict is ...

The second is a radical anti-poverty strategy running counter to centuries of American tradition and decades of welfare reform. By all means, let’s debate each on its own merits. But don’t ...

Poor families' path to American dream leads to suburbs. ... her family was one of hundreds that was moved to the Twin Cities suburbs as the result of a federal fair housing lawsuit.

The following is an excerpt from author Brian Reisinger’s Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family’s Hope and the Untold History of ...

Why the average American family's net worth increased 37% during the pandemic. October 18, ... The survey also found the wealth gap between rich and poor narrowed somewhat during that period.