We should all care about our communities’ economic health as much as we care about our community’s physical health because they are inextricably linked,” Wil Franklin writes.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), aka food stamps, keeps food in the pantries of 42 million Americans. But that number may soon shrink if House Agriculture Committee Chairman ...

Program aims to end the cycle of poverty by educating parents, children. March 21, 2009— -- As the nation roils with fear of poverty and political debates over socialization and the free market, ...

The post Poverty Myths Everyone Needs to Stop Believing appeared first on The Queen Zone. Most of what people believe about money didn't come from school; it came from parents who were doing their ...

In some households, poverty is passed down from generation to generation, almost like an inherited trait. Teri Williams, president of OneUnited Bank, sees it happen among the lower-income Boston ...

As a mother, it’s hard not to worry about the future of your children. You strive to keep them safe and provide them with the best opportunities. This becomes challenging when poverty or housing ...

Although the number of people living in extreme poverty decreased to 5.1 million between 2009 and 2023, 10.8 million, almost ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - For years Danielle Hayden and her family lived a life of poverty. That was until they decided to make a change. “I didn’t want to be on public housing. I didn’t want to have ...

Co-Founder and CTO of Prospera Technologies, leading the company’s vision to transform the way food is grown using data science and AI. Since November 2020, India's farmers have staged some of the ...

An "MHP" guest writes that while poverty creates great challenges for families, providing them them the resources to become upwardly mobile is key. For the past ten years, I have been watching closely ...

For the past ten years, I have been watching closely as the gap between the rich and the poor in America has continued to widen, and as our once strong middle class has become further fractured. So ...