Sugar Babies looks closely at one girl's struggle to make it in small-town America but does not dig deep enough to make a ...

New definition emphasizes that kids can’t be taken from their family because of poverty. But police and lawyers say it might ...

Harvard Professor Christopher “Sandy” Jencks, a sociologist who won accolades for his pioneering research on economic ...

The poverty levels among seniors on Long Island were representative across the state, said Beth Finkel, AARP state director ...

New York's population growth has been outpaced by poverty rates among residents 65 and older, according to a recent study by ...

Poverty is a particularly acute problem for women of color ... are also heavily staffed by women. The health care, social work, and government and community-based services occupations are ...

The United States spends $1 trillion on welfare and medicaid, which can be reduced while still increasing welfare benefits.

Poverty has many dimensions. Following recent crises, not least the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis, some of poverty's known dimensions have evolved while new forms have emerged.

Elon Musk’s federal job cuts may disproportionately threaten the older and Black workforce. Systemic ageism, racial ...

The historian Snyder is, of course, describing America’s current reality. He’s calling this reality a coup — and so are ...

Testimony over a proposal to redefine “neglect” for the child welfare system showed a divide between social workers and law ...

“Poverty is you expect to live with your mother-in-law, with 4 kids. “Poverty is going to your neighbor to wash your clothes, clothes you have worn several days to work…. “Poverty is finding the ...