Identifying poor households is often complicated by a lack of reliable ... poor), and political economy (when some nonpoor people do not support efforts to help poor people) must also be considered.

Lori Brown, a professor of sociology and criminology at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, says that she would like to see the government find a way to help poor people make or keep more ...

New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and Princeton University Professor Eddie Glaude join Chris Jansing to discuss President ...

Financial advice radio program host Dave Ramsey usually gets callers with specific questions on their personal situations.

An economic crisis like the one in Mexico forces poor people to decimate their already small financial ... But reliable data on factors that help measure and diagnose poverty—such as income, education ...

With that in mind, here are seven items poor people tend to waste money on that other classes don’t. People with lower incomes might be more inclined to purchase inexpensive, fast-fashion items ...

Should religious buildings be sold to help the poor and feed the starving? In Christianity, a church is a group of people meeting together to worship God, and that can happen in any building.