Poverty

The Florida Chamber Foundation hopes an interactive map will inspire business leaders to invest in areas where many children live in poverty and read below grade level.

Hundreds of people lined up outside the main courthouse in West Palm Beach late last year, all of them trying to get their suspended driver licenses…

Every time we divvy up our money among good causes, we're making a moral judgment about who is most deserving.

Nearly 200,000 children across Florida could lose their automatic access to free school lunches under a Trump administration proposal that would limit the…

The gap between the richest and the poorest U.S. households is now the largest it's been in the past 50 years, the U.S. Census Bureau says.

The percentage of children living in high-poverty neighborhoods in Florida has decreased 8 percent since the Great Recession, according to a new study...

While the poverty rate finally fell to prerecession levels in 2018, the number of people without health insurance increased, and about one in eight Americans still lived below the poverty line.

Mayors from 70 American cities send a letter to the Trump administration, saying a plan to push millions of people out of the federal food stamp program would punish some of the country's neediest.

The possible change involves a different inflation measure to adjust the poverty threshold annually. Anti-poverty groups worry that many low-income people would be pushed off assistance programs.

The women’s worried conversations about paying utility bills, scraping together enough change to pay for transportation and pawning jewelry to pay for…

Half of all households in Broward County can't afford basic necessities, like housing, transportation, healthcare and childcare, according to a new…

Thousands of homeless residents across Florida have been arrested in recent years on charges of asking for money in public spaces without government…