With the FCC dismantling the rules that safeguard an open internet, rural and low-income consumers are newly vulnerable to a lack of access.

New poverty data from the Census Bureau reveals the extent of the damage that Trump and Paul Ryan could do to America’s neediest communities.

Fast food did not just find its way to low-income neighborhoods. It was brought there by the federal government.

Stripped of the region’s coal and ravaged by drugs, the people of Appalachia are fighting to survive.

As president, he's given up on empathetic populism and bought into Paul Ryan's agenda to punish the poor.

The bestselling author of "Hillbilly Elegy" has emerged as the liberal media's favorite white trash–splainer. But he is offering all the wrong lessons.

Clinton helped cast millions of children into poverty. Here's how she can make amends.

Studies show that black boys have a greater risk of suspension.

A new study shows that such a policy could cut child poverty in half.

It’s harder than ever for the poor to simply pick up and move.