Northwell Health notes that breaking stigma and barriers against access to hygiene products requires active cooperation from ...

President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal ...

Charities have been ramping up pressure on the Government to ditch the benefits restriction as part of its new child poverty plan.

We use the TANF-to-poverty ratio (TPR) to examine changes over time in access to TANF by families experiencing poverty. We ...

In each of the 10 states with the lowest Gini coefficients, the poverty rate is at least a full percentage point below the U.S. poverty rate of 12.5%. Meanwhile, nearly every state with a higher ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been warned he must make cutting levels of child poverty a personal priority or risk leaving ...

AFP U.S. household debt surged to $18.04 trillion in late 2024, with credit card balances reaching an all-time high of $1.21 trillion. Alongside, nearly 80 percent of US citizens are making ...

Since 2019, the U.S. poverty rate fell by one percentage point. In contrast, 20 of the 35 cities on this list reported a higher poverty rate in 2023 than in 2019. At the same time, in every city ...