Most people want to grow old - after all, the alternative is worse - but few want to be old, burdened by loneliness, isolation and the looming risk of poverty. "We thought: nobody is interested in old ...

(KRON) – Peninsula-based nonprofit Moms Against Poverty hosts its annual ‘Holiday Helping Hand’ with a toy drive. KRON4 anchor Stephanie Lin interviews former KRON4 anchor Ella Sogomonian regarding ...

More than 9 million children — about 13% — are living in poverty in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (KCRG) - A Girl Scout from Cedar Falls received the Gold Award for her push to fight period poverty in schools, a project that led to the development of Iowa Bill HF883. Elle Smith, ...

A nonprofit is walking Kansans through the steps to get out of poverty.

Avi Poster, co-founder of a new grass-roots antipoverty coalition in Nashville, sees next year as an ideal time to get policy makers thinking more about how to help the millions of Americans who are ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse has the nation’s worst child poverty among larger U.S. cities, according to new census estimates released Thursday. The city had a child poverty rate of 45.6% in estimates ...

Poverty and indebtedness increase a person's risk of dying young, a pair of new studies say. People with poverty-level family income or increasing debt levels during early adulthood have higher odds ...

The stigma attached to pover- iyis one even the very poor seek to avoid. The life stories of people of means are those of successes, whereas those of people of poverty are most often told though the ...