I did all that could be considered 'pulling myself up by the bootstraps.' No matter how hard I worked, it felt like ...

Poor Americans will face new challenges to enroll, and states will have to build new bureaucracies. Medicaid, the public ...

As Democrats try to understand why they lost the last presidential election and especially why, according to Roper Exit polls, half of voters with less than $50,000 in family income ...

Reverend Dr. William Barber II speaks to marchers during the Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly on June 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. Reverend Dr. William Barber II speaks to marchers ...

Too much month and not enough check plagued the U.S. poor and working class before the federal government shutdown and funding lapse. To wit, business is ...

Born Poor October 7, 2025 7/6c: pbs.org/frontline, PBS App 10/9c: PBS stations (check local listings), YouTube & the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel www ...

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's been feeling disillusioned with her party as of late, is now complaining that "the hard working middle class is becoming the working poor." On Saturday, ...

More than a decade ago, the Emmy-nominated documentary Poor Kids portrayed poverty in America as it’s rarely seen: through the eyes of children. Now, those kids — Brittany, Johnny and Kaylie — are all ...