Your two-part series on the plight of the ski bum inspired this letter (HCN, 10/25/04: As the town hollows out, one Aspen neighborhood thrives) (HCN,.11/8/04: A new breed of ‘ski bums’ is anything but ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prevalence of heart disease risk factors ranged from 1.4% to 17.5% in people living in extreme poverty. The ...

Eugene Richards “Porter Lee and Mr. Will, Hughes, Arkansas” (1986) Porter Lee Davis helps her critically ill husband, Mr. Will, from the cab of their pickup truck. (All images courtesy of the artist ...

More than 660,000 older Americans in California are living below the poverty line, according to an analysis by the health research site KFF, the highest number in the country. The ...

It is no secret that the number of people living in poverty in the United States has consistently reached shocking and deplorable numbers. Food and housing insecurity is an issue that plagues many ...

Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched his own financial advisory firm in 2018. Thomas' experience gives him expertise in a ...

With 10 percent of the world subsisting in extreme poverty, a global commitment to a living wage could help transform lives. ByJon Heggie Under a blazing sun, a farm laborer bends to pluck cotton from ...

The American Dream for some isn't the reality that they live in. For some, it's still a dream. Others were woken up from the dream by the harsh circumstances of socioeconomic reality. And for others, ...

Out of 97,132 children with cancer, 12.63% at the time diagnosis lived in neighborhoods that had high rates of poverty for the previous 30 years. These children faced a 26% and 15% higher risk for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. According to data from the U.S. Census ...