Would it help poverty or hurt the perception of poverty to call a six-figure family “poor”? A recent example of a claim that ...

“Our entire safety net is designed to catch people at the very bottom, but it sets a trap for anyone trying to climb out. As ...

If the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has its way, a new federal poverty calculation will underestimate the number of families — and children — living in poverty even more than it does ...

Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

Ali Velshi on how Donald Trump's gaslighting address on the economy ignores the struggle for Americans in poverty ...

The Trump administration’s latest reported purge at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may be one of its most consequential yet — silently dismantling the small, crucial office that ...

This story is part of the Prospect’s series on how the next president can make progress without new legislation. Read all of our Day One Agenda articles here. It’s often cited that four out of ten ...

Few things in American politics have been more hotly and consistently argued in the last half-century than the legacy of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. In a 1986 speech on welfare reform, ...

Almost 45 percent of students were eligible for free and reduced lunch at Hillsboro schools last year. That figure that has increased by 10 percentage points overall since 2003, though it peaked in ...