Structural poverty refers to an expected poverty status based on the relationship between the assets people own—bicycles, cars, land, livestock, businesses—and the income they generate. A focus on ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. States in the South and West have the highest rates of child poverty, according to a U.S. Census, after the overall U.S.

One of the biggest challenges in providing relief to people living in poverty is locating them. The availability of accurate and reliable information on the location of impoverished zones is ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Child poverty has long been a major issue in New York, with the state routinely having one of the highest rates in the country. But some areas are much more severely impacted ...

This is the time of year when the U.S. Census Bureau publishes its latest data on poverty in the United States, and headlines about it are presenting a mixed picture. One set of survey results found ...