The organizers of a day-long meeting about poverty in Riley County are figuring out next steps, energized by what they say is interest they witnessed in tackling what has become ...

Most poverty-fighting efforts focus on meeting basic material needs, such as food and shelter. But this overlooks the ...

Under outgoing Mayor Stoney, Richmond’s anti-poverty strategy has included working with community health programs not only to address wellness but direct residents to jobs and other services. Back in ...

Reynolds Hutchins’ editorial in the Thanksgiving Daily Progress highlighted an urgent need and also pointed to a solution. Hutchins noted that Charlottesville is the second-most expensive place to ...

State lawmakers aim to provide no-strings-attached cash payments to new mothers and parents in New York to reduce some of the nation’s highest childhood poverty rates. USA TODAY Network reporters ...

In either case, the key to achieving poverty reduction is to address the fundamental problem of unemployment and underemployment. Of the 35,000 working-age residents below the poverty line in the city ...

New York is the only state with a refundable child tax credit that excludes low-income families from accessing the maximum amount, limiting its anti-poverty effect, experts say. If the governor’s ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of California, Irvine education professor Greg Duncan provides an overview of and introduction to a recent report from the National ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Local officials and advocacy organizations expressed their support on Wednesday for recommendations from the state’s Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council. The council’s goal is ...

Thank you for your article about the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund (“Baltimore taxpayers send millions to a youth fund. How much actually makes it to kids?” Nov. 19). It is critical to ensure that ...

Oklahoma House Speaker Kyle Hilbert has called for more investment in education to address poverty rates in the state.