The government’s leading program for creating affordable rentals is enriching corporate landlords while making life hell for struggling tenants—and politicians including Kamala Harris want to double down on it.

Thirteen states, all led by GOP governors, have opted out of a federal program providing summer grocery benefits to low-income families with school-age children.

This tax season is a big test for a slew of newly created child tax credits in places like Minnesota and Oregon.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was created to get low-income families back on their feet. But does it actually work?

Half of all renters pay more than they can afford, and “Build, baby, build” doesn’t seem to be helping.

Oklahoma is rejecting a federal program that would have helped feed kids from low-income families.

A left-right convergence around economics is possible—and the side that takes the lead on this will reap major rewards.

A new, antisocial strain of the prosperity gospel is making its way into pulpits and breeding new hostility toward the least fortunate Americans.

The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?

The federal government is pretty good at handling the unique problems of seniors. Why don't we do the same for parents and kids?

Three consecutive presidents have changed the look of the country’s bills—not to address economic issues like inflation but to project their political values.

A $1,000 tax increase on someone making $30,000 isn’t just bad. It’s repugnant. Please, Democrats, say it.

The pandemic widened the gaps between the haves and have-nots—thus sowing the seeds of the next pandemic.

The West Virginia senator has floated means testing as a way of cutting costs, but his plan could have inadvertent negative effects.

We might be witnessing the demise—in uneven fits and starts—of Democrats’ poisonous “reform” thinking. All it took was a global health catastrophe.

There are structural reasons people are swayed by anti-vaccine propaganda. Sneering at the unvaccinated won't solve them.

Fears about a spike in abuse were proved wrong. Now mothers with firsthand experience of the system want to transform its approach to family safety, which is rooted in racist surveillance and carceral intervention.

Experts say the long-Covid crisis will mirror the pandemic itself, creating a “tsunami of disability” that will take a disproportionate toll on low-income people of color.

Landlords claiming extreme hardship are blaming eviction moratoriums for their troubles. These are misdirections we have to reject while rebuilding from the pandemic.

From The New York Times to Instagram, a recent genre of self-help writing wants you to think the last 16 months were really just an opportunity to become your best self.