A new book looks to redefine how people see poverty. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, the co-author of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy ...

Social media posts, some pointing to comments by podcaster Joe Rogan, are spreading unsupported claims that members of the ...

During Black History Month, President Joe Biden said policy can go a long way toward tackling persistent problems such as Black child poverty. In a Feb. 27 White House address, Biden said the ...

the official poverty rate decreased for White and non-Hispanic White individuals. The supplemental poverty measure (SPM) child poverty rate increased by 1.3 percentage points to 13.7 % in 2023.

According to the city of St. Louis research, Black residents are more than three times more likely than white residents to live in areas of concentrated poverty. Photo courtesy of Urban League The ...