KITTERY, Maine — Supporters, staff and leaders of Mainspring Collective recently gathered to celebrate seven months of collaboration, growth and impact. The social services hub, which opened its doors ...

Watch the prologue from "Born Poor" — a documentary made over 14 years that follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through the teen years to young adulthood.

PORTLAND, Oregon — For years Oregon students have struggled with common skills, like learning to read and write. Since the ...

A study led by a sociologist at Trinity College Dublin has found that stress caused by poverty directly impacts children. The findings contradict mainstream theoretical models of poverty which hold ...

Income inequality has significantly increased in the United States since the 1980s (Pew Research Center, 2020). The wealth gap between America’s richest and poorer families more than doubled between ...

Directed by Elliot Kirschner, "The Last Class" documents Reich's final months in the classroom, blending lecture footage with ...

FPWA, formerly the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, is an anti-poverty organization in New York City that advocates for policies and initiatives that support New Yorkers living in poverty.

A University of Adelaide study has found that the negative effects of energy poverty on mental health are not only related to income stress and therefore differ depending on how energy poverty is ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — An invisible struggle is facing teenagers who menstruate, according to new research by the Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. The research revealed the statistic that a third of ...