Being poor is expensive. You don’t need to be told that, especially if you’re always living paycheck to paycheck and are struggling to get by; you’ve noticed. Still, when you’re just trying to get ...

In the United States, 42 million people are living in poverty. Almost 40% of single-mother households are in poverty, and one in three individuals who experienced poverty as children will remain in ...

-- Even among those with employer-sponsored insurance, the greatest cohort reporting medical or dental debt were those in the ...

In the United States, 42 million people live in poverty. Nearly 40% of single-mother households are impoverished, and alarmingly, 1 in 3 children raised in poverty stay impoverished through adulthood.

Some 11.9 million children in America lived in poverty last year. That comes out to be about one in every six children. Children have no choice or ability to change the income or living situation of ...

In celebration of our partners and the great work they do to advance economic progress for all, we interviewed some of our Nasdaq Foundation grant recipients about their roles, backgrounds and the ...

The nonprofit Purpose Built Communities is working to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty in the United States, by helping local leaders across the country transform struggling neighborhoods ...

Ciera Pritchett and her children Isaiah, 10, and Genesis, 9. Home of Hope provides activities and programming for children while parents attend classes on financial literacy and independent living.

Poverty that persists across generations is known as generational poverty. One generation following another passes down poverty, which is not curable. The cycle of poverty is a long-term pattern of ...

Local folk artist Bertha Cooper Harris, like many African Africans, knows the struggles against the gripping cycle of generational poverty. Cooper Harris, 81, grew up in Cooper Hill, a community named ...