New research from the Urban Institute credits stimulus checks, federal unemployment benefits, and bigger food stamps with a sizable drop in poverty.

The "war on poverty" turns 50 this week. Judging by the official rate, which has only edged down from 19 percent to 15 percent in that time, poverty is winning the war. In Annie Lowrey's excellent ...

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It’s a sobering statistic: half of all public students in the country are economically disadvantaged. That’s the headline that came out earlier this year, prompted by a report from the Southern ...

User-Created Clip by ahedrick2 September 25, 2015 2015-09-20T08:51:27-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/0de/20150920085139001_hd.jpgShows the poverty happening in ...

One of the four principal goals of the welfare reform of 1996 was to increase married two-parent families. The current welfare reform proposals advanced by President George W. Bush and recently ...