Poverty in New York has reached its highest level in more than a decade, according to the latest Poverty Tracker report from the Robin Hood Foundation and Columbia University.

Nearly 2.2 million New Yorkers lived in poverty in 2024, a slight increase from the year before, while hundreds of thousands of others struggled to keep food on the table, pay their rent or have money ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom often boasts that California, if it were a country, would have the world’s fourth-largest economy. But despite its wealth, the state has also seen a sharp increase in poverty since ...

America’s “War on Poverty” has expanded into a vast array of federal social welfare programs that today exceed $1 trillion ...

Ever wondered which states are acing it and which ones are, well, flunking the test of good governance? We’ve got the inside scoop on the states that are struggling to keep up. From crippling poverty ...

Louisiana ranked among the worst states and U.S. territories for child support collection according to a Legislative Auditor's review of state Department of Children and Family Services data from 2020 ...