The documentary "The Line," with the subtitle "Poverty in America - It's not what you think," includes the story of a DuPage County man who lost his job as a banker after the 2008 recession and ...

Emmy Award-winning producer Linda Midgett shows us in this groundbreaking documentary a new face of poverty in America. About 50 million people in the United States live below the poverty line (In ...

BY THE official poverty measure, there were 40m poor Americans in 2017, or 12% of the population. America also does a worse job than its peers of helping the needy (see chart).

As the pandemic continues, the presidential election approaches, and America reckons with racism, FRONTLINE presents a documentary offering a powerful look at child poverty in America in the time ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem.

This is the first part of our discussion of poverty in America for our series "The Price of Poverty."Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast.

Less Than, a documentary about poverty in America, will premier in Amarillo at 7 p.m. Friday at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts. The film was produced using a local creative firm and ...

Patricia Jackson outside her childhood home in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood on Jan. 9, 2021. Jackson and her family are featured on WTTW’s “Firsthand: Living in Poverty” documentary ...

A new exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum examines the work of a long overlooked German-American photographer who exposed the links between racism and poverty in the United States.

In this current debate over deficit reduction, and in our political discourse in general, you almost never hear the word "poverty" or any serious talk about the poor in America.