A group of young AmeriCorps members serving in Houston have found themselves stuck in the city — unable to move on to their ...

A photographer spends 15 years documenting an Appalachian family and the constant pressure of poverty in their lives.

Millions of Americans rely on federal subsidies and programs to make ends meet. But the shutdown and other cuts have them looking elsewhere for help. Here's how residents in rural New York are coping.

One in six American children under 5 lives in poverty — a crisis that shapes health, education and opportunity. PBS’s "Born ...

For programs across California that rely on federal AmeriCorps funding to provide services such as mentoring and tutoring, it ...

Not long ago, obesity was popularly considered a disease of affluence — the product of excess and overindulgence. Today, obesity is increasingly recognized as a disease of poverty, rooted in ...

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on crime solutions from Katie Hill and Jens Ludwig of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Read Part 1 here. Some of our fellow Chicagoans have come ...

According to a joint Miami Herald / WLRN investigation, the Brightline passenger train in Florida has been linked to over 180 deaths since its launch in 2017. Brightline has not been found at fault ...

Tonika Lewis Johnson is a photographer and activist who created participatory projects that reveal the consequences and legacy of segregation in her neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago’s South Side.

More than a decade ago, the Emmy-nominated documentary Poor Kids portrayed poverty in America as it’s rarely seen: through the eyes of children. Now, those kids — Brittany, Johnny and Kaylie — are all ...

The U.S. has one of the highest child poverty rates among wealthy nations. Here’s a look at some struggles kids living in poverty face. Kaylie, pictured in the 2012 documentary “Poor Kids” and the ...

Milwaukee has a poverty problem that usually doesn’t trigger outrage until something shocking happens – which happened on Sept. 16 when police discovered six children, ages 2 months to 9 years, locked ...