Forty-two million Americans receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (also known as food stamps). That’s 12% of the population. To be eligible, household gross income must be ...

Forty-two million Americans receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (also known as food stamps). Twelve percent of the population. To be eligible, household gross income must ...

FACES OF POVERTY: Iris Senogles Weighed down by mounting health-care bills, some people choose bankruptcy. A 2005 study published in the Journal of Health Affairs found that half of all bankruptcies - ...

“We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work.” ...

Courtesy Photo-Carolyn Latimore, 9, her sister Aalijah, 8, and older brother, Robert, 17, of Middletown, Ohio, fell into poverty when their parents divorced. They ve lived in four places in the past ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not ...