By Pan Pylas and Masha MacPherson | The Associated Press The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment …
A program aimed at helping remove families and infants in Flint, Michigan, from deep poverty will give $1,500 to women during mid-pregnancy and $500 each month throughout the first year …
Economists are used to the idea that intervening in concrete ways — spending on development projects, for example, or on social services — can improve outcomes. But what about psychological …
Bay Area food banks are stepping up to fill the gap for our neighbors experiencing food insecurity. We have always supported the community during times of crises and need — …
Over the course of the year, a hundred homeless people in the Bay Area and Los Angeles received $750 a month, no questions asked, to spend as they pleased. How …
Poverty in the U.S. The number of Americans struggling to get by has increased in the past few years. The U.S. Census Bureau produces annual poverty estimates to measure the …
Volunteers sorted and packaged meals Tuesday at the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano counties as the organization navigates an estimated 20 percent increased demand for assistance during the …
David Hilzenrath, Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group | KFF Health News (TNS) The Social Security Administration has demanded money back from more than 2 million people a year — more …
Aurora Sanchez was confident she was doing the right thing, following her husband to the United States from El Salvador to start a new life and a family. She hadn’t …
Lockdowns had catastrophic consequences for the country’s least well-off, and could have set in train a Victorian-style “poverty- stricken underclass”, a leading think tank has warned. They were the “dynamite” …