Thanksgiving is a time for us to pause, take stock and give thanks. But gratitude rings hollow if we use it to look away from hardship — especially the kind hiding in plain sight. This year, as ...

This week's cover story on the working poor triggered a childhood memory for Journal News reporter Peter D. Kramer To this day, my cheeks burn at the memory of it. A few years after my father's death, ...

Congestion relief pricing works. It works in other countries, and despite just being implemented in Manhattan, it's already working there, too. So, of course, a lot of people are mad about it. Can you ...

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, ...

The moral of this editorial is simple: Never stop fighting for what you believe in, especially in Tallahassee. Despite the odds, keep speaking up. A rare and surprising thing happened at the state ...

ICE raids continue the capitalistic putdown of the working poor. If the government really wanted to make a better place, they would go into the corporations that hire these folks, and fine them 20 ...

They pay minimum wage and charge for transportation {to the work site} and rental of work gloves. They get away with it because they are working with desperately poor people.” Here’s how Uhlich says ...

Greg and Jodi Perlman have no use for rich people who dither about helping the poor. The Los Angeles couple, whose fortune comes from Greg Perlman’s real estate business, said they see far too many ...