The United States is slowly trying to piece itself back together after being ravaged by an unrelenting pandemic (which still is not over, by the way, so people need to start acting like it), a racial ...

Certain types of cancer are linked to areas with high poverty, according to a new study, and many of those types of cancer are more lethal than those found in wealthier areas. Published Tuesday in the ...

Are you familiar with escape rooms? The only way you can escape is to solve a complicated problem. But what happens if you fail to escape the room on time? Having lost, you are then “imprisoned” in ...

Ending all types of poverty for everyone. By reducing the number of people living in poverty, we build their resilience and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events ...

Last week, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (henceforth, NAS) released a new “consensus study” on poverty. The study was commissioned by the Census Bureau to assess and ...

According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Cumberland County’s poverty rate hovers around 19%, slightly higher than the state and national average. A lot of Americans are struggling. Two-thirds of ...

A Greene County nonprofit is working with schools, homeless shelters, and local food pantries to abolish a type of poverty that many people don’t know about. Lisa Jordan, of Xenia, and her nonprofit ...

Pope Leo XIV placed the poor at the core of the Christian message in his first major document, which was released on Thursday ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – There is often a cause-and-effect link between financial illiteracy and poverty. Individuals who do not understand personal budgeting, credit scores and the importance of saving for ...

Peter Singer is well known to have argued for our responsibilities to address global poverty based on an analogy with saving a drowning child. Just as the passerby has a duty to save that child, we ...

A key to reducing gun violence in Missouri is addressing disinvestment in both urban and rural communities throughout the state, panelists said Wednesday during a digital discussion hosted by The Star ...