In 1988 President Ronald Reagan argued that “the federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Thomas Sowell, a 95-year-old economist at the Hoover Institution and social-media ...

Social Security benefits play a vital role in reducing poverty in every state, and they lift more people above the poverty line than any other program in the United States. Without Social Security, 23 ...

Examines ten U.S. cities facing poverty, crime, and economic hardship.

The Justice Department announces that 25 more people have been arrested in the Cities Church invasion case involving Don ...

In an article for The Mirror, former Labour PM Gordon Brown says Reform UK will reverse progress on child poverty by ...

McDowell County, once the nation's largest coal producer, is now one of the poorest places in the United States. Residents have little faith in the government.

If Florida was a stock, the state's Chamber of Commerce CEO Mark Wilson "would be investing everything" in it as he details the Sunshine State's plans to become a Top 10 global economy.

The Clarion Ledger mapped where all building fires in Jackson occurred in 2025. Most occurred in areas with high numbers of vacant or abandoned homes.

Jackson, a South Carolina native who died Tuesday at age 84, spoke many times in Rock Hill at Winthrop University and other ...

Minister Ahsan Iqbal acknowledged that conditions imposed under the program of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), such as subsidy cuts and currency devaluation, have made life more difficult for ...

February is Black History Month — a time to honor trailblazers whose impact is shaping communities right now. In West ...