Poverty follows families to the suburbs
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As Americans flee the cities for the suburbs, many are failing to leave poverty behind.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census.
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Children living in inner-city areas are not getting enough exercise, the British Heart Foundation says.
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Title 1 School designations, free lunch programs, food stamps, and Medicaid are among the local indicators of the rising poverty in the mountains of southwestern Virginia
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Roxanne Miser with sons Joseph, left, and Isaac walk past 56,000 orange dots that hang from the Community Action Food Bank building in Provo Tuesday. The dots represent the number of people living in poverty in Utah County.
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Residents of poor neighborhoods are experiencing alarming rates of diabetes and steady increases in other chronic illnesses like heart disease, while other residents have seen slower increases or even declines.
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Media & professional: Poor and wealthy households in Britain are becoming more segregated, says new study.
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A new study says residents of suburbs such as Westport with a high degree of sprawl are more likely to report chronic health problems such as high blood pressure, arthritis, headaches and breathing difficulties compared to residents in less sprawled-out
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With no great crisis but signs of trouble all around, more coupons and meals at home for area families.
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City kids, like their country  cousins, are struggling with weight problems, U.S. researchers  reported on Monday.
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A view of Upper East Side girls hits close to home.
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By MICHAEL ARTZ  Eight formerly homeless families were supposed to move into a newly renovated building on Joshua Street in Battery Park. Instead, all of the families who lived in the blocks around the building are looking for homes themselves.
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By Brock Vergakis Associated Press  Private school vouchers are often touted as a way to level the educational playing field for less-affluent families, particularly minorities living in poverty.
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NEW DELHI -- Neelamdevi Thakur lives in a working-class slum and earns a living washing dishes in middle-class homes twice a day. In the past year, two of her five children, who attend an affluent private school, have returned home speaking words that she had never heard from her other children, who...
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By Bonnie Rochman, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 10--KINSTON -- KINSTON -- When Frank Gaskill was a boy in Philadelphia, his parents had to entrust his care to their church for a number of years. The Depression raged, and they couldn't afford to rear him.
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Colorado isn&#39;t doing enough to boost its low-income working families, according to a study to be released today. That is especially troubling, say those who are involved in
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A quarter of the nation now lives in poverty in a country that once prided itself on an egalitarian ethos.