The Senate’s plan for funding the fiscal year 2012 Pell Grant hit a snag last week – the Republican-controlled House Budget Committee blocked a provision ...
State and local governments, community-based organizations and other non-profits play a significant role in implementing policies and programs to reduce poverty and ...
The successful bipartisan effort over the last two decades to reduce state income taxes on working-poor families has stalled and is in danger of reversing. No ...
Although family income grew throughout the decade, the financial benefits that the family might have realized were largely consumed by health care cost growth, ...
Feeding America launched this awesome toolit, full of guidelines, best practices, tools, videos and sucess stories to help fight against hunger in your ...
The Census Bureau on Monday released what it says is a more accurate measure of poverty in America. The new measure shows more poverty among the elderly, but less ...
The Census report on poverty using a new supplemental poverty measure showed lower poverty rates among children than the official measure, but these rates are still ...
Federal social programs are keeping nearly two million American children out of poverty, according to the Census Bureau's first new poverty calculation measure in ...
This report from the Brookings Institution shows that as the first decade of the 2000s drew to a close, the two downturns that bookended the period, combined with ...
The Census Bureau released a new unofficial count of poverty in America on Monday, showing about 16 percent of the population live at or below the poverty line.
The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job ...
One of the ways that human service organizations can help the challenge of Americans in poverty is by connecting those we serve with the resources out there that are ...
Today's 20-somethings are the first generation, as a whole, to face downward economic mobility compared to their parents' generation, according to a new ...
The Luther I. Replogle Foundation focuses its giving on programs addressing the needs of youth and women with children living in (or at risk of) long-term poverty, ...
The paid sick days amendment to Philadelphia's 21st Century Minimum Wage and Benefits Ordinance, which passed 15-2 on October 13, became law last week. This ...
After examining the data from an exhaustive national study on youth violence, Michael D. Resnick has concluded that the answer to reducing the likelihood of violence ...
In Greenville, South Carolina, Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry formally unveiled his economic plan Tuesday. The proposal includes ...
The Congressional Budget Office has the data to prove it. Its new report finds that the after-tax income for the highest-income households grew more than it did for ...
