39M Americans in Working Poor Families
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One in every five U.S. jobs pays less than a poverty-level wage for a family of four, according to a study by the nonpartisan Working Poor Families Project.
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By Chris Echegaray, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Sep. 14--TAMPA -- America is making little progress putting computers and  Internet access into the homes of minorities at the same rate as Anglos.
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A boss tackles problems of the working poor while reducing turnover and increasing profits.
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In the past four years, Americans have spent a growing portion of their paychecks on health care and for the most part gotten less for their money, according to government figures and several independent studies.
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Black Americans born between 1946 and 1964  "are no better off relative to whites than their parents and grandparents" were in terms of income, according to a new Duke University study.
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Squeezed by soaring health-care costs and dwindling pensions, ever more Americans are choosing to postpone retirement -- and the Washington region leads the nation when it comes to working past age 65, according to census figures released today.
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With $41 trillion in private wealth set to be transferred in the United States in the coming decades, families are wondering how to prepare their children.
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Over the last 25 years, 97 immigrants to the United States have appeared on the 400 list.  These are the richest.
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Some 1.3 million Americans slid into  poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor swelled to 35.9  million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the U.S.  government said on Thursday in a report sure to fuel Democratic  criticism of President Bush.
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Rental housing in the Green Bay area and elsewhere in Wisconsin is more affordable than the national average, but an advocacy group says many poor Americans are still paying more than they can afford because salaries havenât kept up with rent and
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A nationwide survey has found that migraine headaches are more common in low-income families when there is no family history of such headaches.
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WASHINGTON - Over two decades, the income gap has steadily increased between the richest Americans, who own homes and stocks and got big tax breaks, and those at the middle and bottom of the pay scale, whose paychecks buy less.    The growing disparity is even more pronounced in this recovering economy...
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A small but growing number of American families beset by major medical problems are learning the hard way that simply having health insurance is sometimes not enough.
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Description: The US Census Bureau releases new data that shows the number of Americans living in poverty rose last year by 1.3 million people.
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One in six Europeans is living below national poverty thresholds, with children particularly vulnerable, according to the results of an official study.
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Candidates in both parties are promising to work to cover more of the Americans without health insurance.
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Even as African Americans and other minorities have made economic progress in the last 40 years, many of those reaching the middle-income rung are finding it a hollow promise.