A book detailing poverty in Oklahoma -- and published more than six years ago -- is still an eerily accurate portrait of the state's economic condition, a consultant for the Oklahoma Institute for ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Mobile Safety-Net Team ,Oishei Foundation, and University at Buffalo's Regional Institute have been conducting research on the Buffalo-Niagara region’s poverty issue since ...

The new book by the sociologist and author of “Evicted” examines the persistence of want in the wealthy United States, finding that keeping some citizens poor serves the interests of many.

A youngster surviving on flavoured milk and noodle broth was hospitalised with malnutrition, which caused a heart condition and led to all her teeth having to be removed. The shocking tale is just one ...