April 22, 2004 — -- They do essential jobs but are paid very low wages. They work hard but don’t get ahead. Even tiny setbacks can send them reeling. And when you live paycheck to paycheck, when ...

The most house-poor place in America is Hialeah, Florida, a city in the Miami metropolitan area. Two suburbs in the ...

For children living in poverty, hunger has an impact on learning. A few weeks ago, my wife and I were looking for a movie to watch and, after scrolling for a while, we landed on “Straw,” a Tyler Perry ...

Older adults with the fewest financial resources die nine years earlier, on average, than those with the greatest wealth, according to a report by the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and the ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, saying his service to the poor and the church had propelled him to the papacy.