The number of homeless families has increased by more than 13 percent since 2007.

Because of sequestration, a bleak housing and homelessness situation is about to get a lot worse.

Nearly one-fifth of large companies are raising the cost of health insurance by only offering high-deductible “catastrophic” plans to employees.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama offered concrete proposals anti-poverty advocates have long waited for, but they aren't nearly enough.

TANF authorization expires at the end of March. Here are ten things the American people need to know about it.

In his second Inaugural address, President Obama offered words that inspired hope among some advocates fighting poverty in America.

Why haven't low-income Americans been given an opportunity to meet with the president to tell their own stories?

Congress's solution to the "fiscal cliff" is far from perfect, but it does do a lot to help Americans who are living in poverty.

In a somewhat bizarre op-ed last week on Supplemental Security Income, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof acknowledged, “I’m no expert on domestic poverty,” and then seemingly set out to prove it.

If Congress doesn’t extend the unemployment insurance program at the end of the year, two million people would be cut off.