This is the living room of her home in Marks, once the poorest community in the poorest county in the poorest state in America ... He planned to launch a Poor People's Campaign, mobilizing ...

What does it actually mean to be poor? How do people fall below the poverty line? And why is it so hard to get above it? We carve out time to talk about poverty in America in our series "The Price ...

As the country's economic outlook bleakens, Trump officials are trying to convince us that actually, being poor is a good thing.

Let’s say you clean houses or offices ... Bank of America's new fees for customers with low balances are one of many penalties people pay for being poor. Sirrea Monroe never expected her ...

The authors and their researchers visited poor locations ... a lot of fears about people being dependent and living off the government dollar, but they still believe that America should be a ...

Because it's profitable, argues sociologist Matthew Desmond, in Poverty, By America. He tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe why wealthier Americans benefit from forces that keep their fellow citizens from ...

Demonstrators march outside the US Capitol during the Poor People’s Campaign rally at the National Mall in Washington on Saturday, June 23, 2018. (Jose Luis Magana / AP Photo) EDITOR’S NOTE ...

The prevailing assumption among scholars had been that most poor people in America’s urban areas lived ... flow” generated by renting rooming houses to poor single men. Poverty did not ...

He then cut millions of dollars in federal support to house poor people ... there are over 20 times more empty houses in America than there are homeless people. As Marketwatch noted in an article ...

The outlet surveyed people who have good jobs — including ... at least $5 million said they still consider themselves to be poor. Getty Images/iStockphoto Many of those in search of feeling ...

Dean had volunteered to work at the University of Central America immediately after the ... They fear, half-consciously, that these poor people will lunge for their wallets, or that when they ...