Poverty

A new analysis by the Urban Institute finds that a quarter of Americans living in poverty don’t receive public assistance such as food stamps, subsidized housing, child care or cash benefits.

Recent devastating wildfires burned down more than 300 homes in Malibu, California — one of the wealthiest cities in California. Many homeowners there employed gardeners and housekeepers who lost their jobs. Oscar Mondragόn, the director of the Malibu Community Labor Exchange, where day workers find work, says it’s too early to tell how many workers were […]

Twenty states are raising their minimum wages as we usher in 2019.

They can be left anywhere, which riles wealthy communities. But that might make them surprisingly effective in underserved neighborhoods.

An entity that buys land in Pescadero, California to preserve it as open space also effectively takes the land off the tax rolls

In some parts of the country, like Central Florida, senior citizens make up about 10 percent of the homeless population.

For thousands of homeless people living in their cars across California, car impoundment can be the tipping point into joblessness and a life on the streets.

A nonprofit program in Cleveland helps renters become homeowners.