With President Obama stressing economic inequality in his State of the Union Address, a new poll seemed to support the idea that the nation’s distribution of wealth is fundamentally unfair. According ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - The number of children living in poverty in America has increased just one month after the expanded child tax credits ended. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social ...

The paradox of poverty in the U.S. is persistently high levels of individual economic hardship amid ever-increasing levels of societal wealth. In The Poverty Paradox, Washington University sociologist ...

Gender differences in poverty rates in the United States may be associated with women's differing circumstances—particularly the burden of dependent children—rather than inherent to gender itself, ...

Indian women past childbearing age are dying at a higher rate than those in other countries because of poverty and limited access to resources such as food and health care, according to a study from ...