Some parents may struggle to provide for their kids, but the child welfare system struggles to differentiate between poverty and neglect.

Rigorous new research appears to show that monthly checks intended to help disadvantaged children did little for their ...

Over 2.5 million American grandparents have traded retirement dreams for full-time parenting duties. The opioid crisis and ...

The organization helps children, adults, seniors, and others through a range of services, but at its core, behavioral health ...

Over the past decade, there’s been a growing demand for increasing the federal minimum wage as someone working full-time at only $7.25 does not earn enough to keep a family out of poverty.

According to WalletHub, the city had the third-lowest share of families living in poverty in the nation and the third-lowest share receiving food stamps ...

Improving poverty-fighting tax credit programs, taxing extreme wealth, and defending public services from attacks by billionaires can pave the way for the more transformative reimagining of economic ...