From hospital closures in rural America to soaring child care costs, policy failures are squeezing poor households. A moral ...

Joe Thomas is The Daily Signal’s Virginia correspondent. He is a 37-year broadcasting veteran with 17 years covering Virginia from the marches to the memorials and everything in between. Ever since ...

The decision comes two and a half months after President Donald Trump signed legislation sharply reducing food aid to the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The main gauge of U.S. poverty did not change significantly in 2024, and household income also remained about level except for gains among the wealthiest Americans, the U.S.

Most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, according to a new poll, while fewer ...

More young children in the U.S. are living with older adults who collect Social Security — and that’s changing the landscape of how kids are supported financially. As the Brookings Institution reports ...

Donald Trump claims Washington, D.C., needs the National Guard to get crime under control. Every time he says it, the same argument flares up: who's to blame for crime in America's cities? They're ...

Birmingham has been ranked as the fifth-worst city for women’s poverty in an analysis of 182 U.S. cities done by WalletHub.

The dozen US states that implemented a refundable child tax credit program in the wake of the pandemic held down child poverty rates relative to states that didn’t act, according to an analysis by ...