Before he died on Sept. 4 at the age of 99, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton left us with stark warnings about President Donald Trump and the American right. One of the country’s leading experts on how ...

It’s evident from Trump Accounts that the moderns still don’t understand that poverty isn’t a state of existence that can be ...

Michael W. Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked up to US$140,000 for a family of four. Currently, a family of that size has ...

Stephen Roll, Jenn Finders, and Leah Hamilton Childhood poverty in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in history in 2021. The ...

Seniors are the only age group that saw a rise in poverty in 2024, Census Bureau data show. Without government help, it could get worse, experts say.

More and more of society’s basic functions have come to depend on the accumulation of private wealth, while instilling fear that a good life is otherwise impossible. (iStock/HABesen) One way of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aisha Nyandoro is a leading voice on equitable economic policies. A recent AP-NORC poll reveals a pervasive misunderstanding about ...

The “harsh realities” of poverty in St. Louis, according to a Legal Services of Eastern Missouri report, are visible during events including the annual Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis MLK Food ...

Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...

If you’ve been trying to follow the debate over the new measure of poverty released by the Census Bureau this morning, you’re probably completely confused by now. So far in the last few days we’ve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Before he died on ...