“My grandfather’s death, six months into the pandemic, is more than a tragedy,” Sarah Jones wrote at New York magazine, where she is a columnist, in late 2020. “His fate is as political as it is ...

Who are America's working poor? The official definition is those Americans who spend at least 27 weeks a year in the labor force and yet have incomes below the federal poverty line. I am one of those ...

In July a team of researchers from a Harvard-affiliated research institute and the US Census Bureau released a study on economic mobility in the United States. The results, published in the article, ...

“Why is it that the issues that most of the public agrees with — healthcare, living wages, voting rights, democracy — why is it that those issues weren’t more up front?” We speak to Bishop William ...

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 booming for America’s car repossession ...

As of 2023, a whopping 50% of Rockland County families were living below the poverty line or were the working poor, barely making ends meet, according to a new United Way study. The United Way ...

The Hudson Valley, one of the nation's most expensive regions, has more than its share of poor and working poor. Here's a look at the numbers for Putnam County, from a United Way report. As of 2023, ...