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.

The gap in the family life of the rich and poor yawns wider that it ever has, and the individuals most hurt by this are, you guessed, it, the children of the poor.

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 typical poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, ... he typical American poor family with children is supported by only 800 hours of work during a year ...

An exclusive analysis uncovers that students of color in the largest 100 cities in the United States are much more likely to attend schools where most of their peers are poor or low-income.

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

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

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.

AN AMERICAN FAMILY AT 50 revisits the original series, ... And poor Bill (laughs). JACK: Let's go out and dance. PAT: All right. JACK: Mary, come on. Let's go organize this.