Poverty in the U.S. is a huge problem, with more people suffering from poverty and lack of healthcare than any other developed country. Are you ahead, or behind on retirement? SmartAsset's free tool ...

What happens when you grow up poor in America—and stay in touch with the same filmmaker for more than a decade? In this episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast, host Raney Aronson-Rath speaks with ...

A federal government shutdown has disrupted SNAP benefits, with only partial payments expected for over 42 million recipients. The author, a former SNAP recipient, argues against negative stereotypes, ...

BOB GARFIELD: This is On the Media. I’m Bob Garfield. BROOKE GLADSTONE: And I’m Brooke Gladstone. Now starts the final lap in our poverty tour, which begins as we did, with the Virgil of our ...

Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+ More than a decade ago, in the Emmy-nominated documentary "Poor Kids," the acclaimed PBS series FRONTLINE explored poverty in ...

In case you didn’t know, there are poor gamers. Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation has published a report on what it means to be poor in America today. According to the report, households ...

In this blog post, we're going to present another challenge from the decks of challenges we have created for the game, "Bounce Back." This deck is titled, "Being Poor in America." It addresses the ...

America's middle class is shrinking. The latest census classifies almost half of all Americans as either poor or "low income." As jobs disappear and government programs are cut back, more people are ...

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