Pope Leo urges Christians to care for the poor, says ‘there are many forms of poverty’

In the first major teaching of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV turned his attention to the poor, calling on Christians worldwide to ...

For older Americans, the cost of poverty is 9 years of life, study finds

Low-income older Americans on average die nearly a decade earlier than wealthier people, a new analysis finds.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

They Were ‘Born Poor’ in America. As Adults, They’re Fighting to Shake Child Poverty’s Lingering Impact.

Watch the prologue from "Born Poor" — a documentary made over 14 years that follows kids in three families who try to overcome poverty from childhood through the teen years to young adulthood.

Utah Republicans are reimagining what it looks like to tackle poverty

What is a conservative approach to fixing poverty? Republican leaders in Utah explored answers to that question at the annual ...
America Magazine

Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians

I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think ...

America's poverty problem looks like six kids in a storage unit | Opinion

The reality is that poverty is rising in the U.S., and more families live paycheck to paycheck, which increases the risk of ...
National Catholic Reporter

Sociologist: Ending US poverty is doable but requires 'each of us' to 'become poverty abolitionists'

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 — ...

California leads the nation in this poverty measure - and S.F.'s is even higher

California's poverty rate is once again the highest in the country, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows. What's more, ...
Times Union

Commentary: Childhood poverty is a public health emergency. We need to treat it that way.

A pediatrician writes that poor nutrition, environmental pollution and inadequate medical care lead to chronic health problems, developmental delays and unrealized potential. Credit: Getty Images. New ...

A record number of CT families can’t afford basics. And poverty is growing fastest outside of cities

A record-high 581,000 Connecticut households, about 40%, couldn’t afford a basic “survival” budget in 2023, according to a new analysis from the United Way of Connecticut.
Yahoo

Poverty is fueling Trumpism — and there’s a sinister reason why

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 ...