A book detailing poverty in Oklahoma -- and published more than six years ago -- is still an eerily accurate portrait of the state's economic condition, a consultant for the Oklahoma Institute for ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Mobile Safety-Net Team ,Oishei Foundation, and University at Buffalo's Regional Institute have been conducting research on the Buffalo-Niagara region’s poverty issue since ...

“Books about poverty tend to be books about the poor,” the sociologist Matthew Desmond writes in “Poverty, by America” (Crown). That’s true whether the motivation is to blame the poor for their ...

A youngster surviving on flavoured milk and noodle broth was hospitalised with malnutrition, which caused a heart condition and led to all her teeth having to be removed. The shocking tale is just one ...