Who spilled vodka on the cat?” are words that, to my knowledge, have never been spoken in a movie before. Until now. They are ...

"You would think the poverty in which he grew up would give him some empathy, but instead it did the opposite." View Entire ...

The most common conditions of maltreatment include parental drug and alcohol abuse, severe mental illness, domestic violence ...

The multiplier signifying the difference in size between the share of income going to the top 20 percent of households versus that going to the bottom 20 percent of ...

Columnist Issac J. Bailey writes that the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency are making life worse for the most vulnerable Americans.

More information: Black Poverty Leads White Americans to Blame Racial Inequality on Black Americans Themselves, Social Psychological and Personality Science (2025). DOI: 10.1177/19485506251329122 ...

New research in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that White Americans living in counties with higher Black poverty rates are more likely to believe racial equality of opportunity ...

A rural community's experience indicates that an essential element in a war on poverty is inducing Slum dwellers to develop patterns of social functioning, including group action and local leadership ...

Does membership in a group that has been poor for generations constitute belonging to a separate culture? A study of Puerto Ricans in both Puerto Rico and New York indicates that it does ...

Unequal distribution of wealth in the U.S. population is evidenced, in part, by the nearly 41 million Americans living on poverty level incomes. The Department of Health and Human Services has set ...