Poorest States in the US in 2023. Today we look at the top 10 states with the highest poverty rates in America for 2023.

New census data show how poverty in America looked before the Trump administration’s megabill made historic cuts to Medicaid ...

We learned Tuesday that a record number of Americans are living in poverty, and that the poverty rate--15.1 percent--rose for the fourth straight year. But those raw numbers leave out some key details ...

Children born into poverty are far more likely to remain poor in adulthood in the United States than in other wealthy countries. Why? The stickiness of poverty in the U.S. challenges the self-image of ...

Philadelphia has shed its label as the "poorest big city in America." Why it matters: The city's decadeslong fight against ...

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. Credit - Jemal Countess/Getty Images But the reality of ...

A few weeks before his death in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke about the “other America” to a union group in New York. In his remarks, he condemned the structural nature of poverty, saying ...

A recent poll reveals that most Americans have differing views on the root cause of homelessness, but most think the ...