Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for ...

President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of ...

These facts have done little to dispel the misconception among some critics that what child welfare agencies call “neglect” ...

Two common groups of people that are regularly affected by period poverty are students and those experiencing homelessness, ...

Aleah Tillotson was a homeless mother when she arrived with a voucher for her child at a local Head Start program run through ...

The Department for Communities is due to publish it's anti-poverty strategy as poverty figures show little change.

New research in Social Psychological and Personality Science shows that white Americans living in counties with higher Black ...

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The figure, released by the Department for Work and Pensions, is an increase of 100,000 children from the previous year - and ...

The falling poverty figures are the latest sign that his policies are reaping rewards: The economy is forecast to grow almost ...