Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Who are America's working poor? The official definition is those Americans who spend at least 27 weeks a year in the labor force ...

Ray Perryman is the head of The Perryman Group and serves as a distinguished professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2022, 37.9 million people (11.5% the U.S. population), ...

The proposed changes to Medicaid are part of a comprehensive legislative package driven by House Republicans. This bill aims to offset the costs of significant tax cuts and other provisions, with ...

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 ...

In July a team of researchers from a Harvard-affiliated research institute and the US Census Bureau released a study on economic mobility in the United States. The results, published in the article, ...

As of 2023, a whopping 50% of Rockland County families were living below the poverty line or were the working poor, barely making ends meet, according to a new United Way study. The United Way ...

“Why is it that the issues that most of the public agrees with — healthcare, living wages, voting rights, democracy — why is it that those issues weren’t more up front?” We speak to Bishop William ...

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 ...

The gap between getting by and falling behind has become razor-thin for countless Canadian families who once considered themselves financially stable. Grocery bills that make you wince, rent increases ...