Scott Turner, former state legislator, NFL player and pastor from Plano, Texas, will take over as the new Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Given that the history of HUD is ...

By Yasmin Tarver In his farewell address, President Joe Biden delivered a stark warning about the dangerous power of the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Catholic leaders in East Africa launched a campaign on Wednesday (Feb. 12) to advocate for the ...

On both sides of the political aisle, very few U.S. adults think the country is spending too much on Social Security and ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to afford their basic needs. But this is a ...

The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat off the contenders from ...

While American society is especially good among wealthy countries at producing poverty, it is especially bad at making the ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender youth.

As President Donald Trump attempts to eliminate any consideration of race, a new federal effort is underway to recognize the ...

The Cincinnati Public School district received more than $30 million in Title I funds in 2022, more than 99% of the 18,500 districts across the United States.

Freezing of USAID funds impacts crucial Latin American programs fighting drug trafficking, poverty, and corruption ...