Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up The percentage of people who changed residences between 2010 and ...

The poverty rate in the U.S. has risen dramatically in the year since pandemic benefits ran out — and the child poverty rate has more than doubled, according to U.S. Census Bureau's annual data on ...

WASHINGTON -- Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans -- nearly 1 in 2 -- have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. The latest ...

Census workers on May 1 will begin canvassing neighborhoods, going to households that failed to return a form by mail. Census takers will only ask the questions that are on the census form. "We just ...

Several area school districts don't agree with 2000 U.S. Census figures that show the number of students from low-income families has decreased in the past 10 years. Those census numbers determine how ...

A housing market in need of more inventory didn’t get much of an assist from homebuilders last month. Overall, single-family housing starts fell 4.3 percent from July to August. Multifamily starts ...

BRATTLEBORO — Officials are urging participation in the census as local numbers are currently coming in low. Last week in his regular COVID-19 Response Status updates, Town Manager Peter Elwell said ...

Experts point to the expanded child tax credit as key to this poverty yo-yo. When it ended, many lower-income families struggled to pay their... Child poverty more than doubles — a year after hitting ...